47 DIVISION 140 Infantry Brigade London Regiment 21st (County of London) Battalion (1st Surrey Rifles)

1 February 1918 - 5 May 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2732/2)

516 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the London Regiment 21st (County of London) Battalion (1st Surrey Rifles), 140 Infantry Brigade, 47th Division, covering February 1918 to May 1919 across 497 pages. It names 95 places across 148 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three reports, narratives and plans, 224 Operation Orders, two defence schemes, two maps and four diagrams. Among the papers are: The Following Patrols Will Leave This Frost To-Night; 24th Aust Inf. Bn. order No. 95; Battalion Routine orders No. 230 1/17th Battalion London Regiment.The diary opens at Lechelle on 1 February 1918. 1918 is spent at Auchel, Equancourt, St Hilaire, Cauchy A La Tour and Saisseval. 1919 at Ferfay and Cauchy A La Tour. It closes at Ferfay on 5 May 1919. Ferfay is where it spent longest, 141 days across four separate stays, it came back to Warloy nine separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 81 days at Auchel.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Needle Wood.In 1918 it is also recorded at Support Left Sub Sector Flesquieres, Flesquieres Left, Bertincourt, London Camp, Barastre, Equancourt And Metz, Metz, Villers Plouich, Left Battalion Right Bde and Midland Reserve.

• 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: 9781474526326
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press