42 DIVISION 125 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Trench Mortar Battery

1 July 1917 - 31 December 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2655/4)

74 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, 125 Infantry Brigade, 42nd Division, covering July 1917 to December 1918 across 66 pages. It names 35 places across 41 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one report or narrative, nine Operation Orders and one map. Among the papers are: Relief Table to Accompany 125th Brigade operation order Number 38.The diary opens at Ytres on 1 July 1917. 1917 is spent at Comiecourt, Nieuport, Ypres, Bethune and Wormhoudt. 1918 at Havrincourt Wood, Colincamps, Le Preol F10d5.3, Fontaine Aupire and Commecourt Essarts. It closes at Charleroi on 31 December 1918. Comiecourt is where it spent longest, 45 days, it came back to Nieuport three separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 27 days at Nieuport.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Havrincourt Wood, Warnimont Wood and Adinfer Wood F2 B9.9.In 1917 it is also recorded at Bavincourt, St Feans Ber Bigen, St. Jan-Ter Biezen, Arneke, Esquelbecq, Ghyvelde, 125th Brigade Order Number 42, Coxide. Bains, Coxyde-Bains and Coxide Canadacamp. In 1918 it is also recorded at Locon, Gomiecourt, Adinfer Wood F2 B9.9, Vauchelle 133 C, Warnimont Wood, Hebuterne, Bus Woods, La Barque, Barastre and Fontaine.

• Reihe: War Diaries - Facsimile Reprints of Official War Office WO95 Documents
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte Besondere Kriege und militärische Feldzüge Erster Weltkrieg
• ISBN: 9781474525718
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press