51 DIVISION 153 Infantry Brigade Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 7th (Fife) Battalion (Territorial)

1 November 1916 - 31 March 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2878)

864 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 7th (Fife) Battalion (Territorial), 153 Infantry Brigade, 51st Division, covering November 1916 to March 1917 across 840 pages. It names 27 places across 42 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, 280 reports, narratives and plans, 44 Operation Orders, fifteen maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: Casualty Return; Lessons from Recent Fighting with special Reference to Machine Guns; 51st (Highland) Division. Daily Intelligence Summary-6 a.m. 31/10/16 to a.m. 1/11/16.; V Corps Summary of Intelligence. part I. Information from Our Own Front; Annex to V Corps Summary of Intelligence, 15-11-16; V Corps Summary of Intelligence; 153rd Infantry Brigade Intelligence Summary for the period 6 a.m. 31st October, to 6 a.m; XVII Corps Intelligence Summary. for the period 8 a.m. 21st to 8 a.m. 22nd February 1917; Third Army Intelligence Summary. 1st March to 15th March, 1917; Third Army Intelligence Summary. 16th February to 28th February, 1917; Annexe to XVII Corps Intelligence Summary No. 36.; Intelligence Officer.The diary opens at Auchonvillers on 1 November 1916. 1916 is spent at Courcelette, Ovillers Huts, Bouzincourt and Lealvillers. 1917 is the most travelled year, 21 places against 16 in the next busiest, and is spent at Bajus, Millencourt, Maroeuil, Hermin and Ovillers. It closes at Maroeuil on 31 March 1917. Bajus is where it spent longest, 23 days across three separate stays, it came back to Courcelette four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 16 days at Millencourt.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Mailly Wood.In 1916 it is also recorded at Mailly Wood, Attack on Y-Ravine, Y. Ravine, Arqueves, Puchvillers, Hedauville and Ovillers. In 1917 it is also recorded at Courcelette, Bouzincourt, Puchvillers, Gezaincourt, Domquer, 153rd Infantry Brigade Operation Order No. 176, Domvast, Gapennes, Fillievres and Beauvois.

• 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: 9781474528689
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press