51 DIVISION 153 Infantry Brigade Gordon Highlanders 5th Battalion

1 January 1917 - 26 January 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2881)

908 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 5th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, 153 Infantry Brigade, 51st Division, covering January 1917 to January 1918 across 888 pages. It names 56 places across 69 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries five lists of honours and awards, six casualty and personnel returns, 111 reports, narratives and plans, 112 Operation Orders, fourteen appendices, fourteen maps and five diagrams. Among the papers are: Honours and awards; Casualties for March 1917; Casualties for April 1917; Report on operations; Addenda to operation order No. 173; Instruction for Offensive operation; 153rd Infantry Brigade Administrative instructions No.33; 152nd Infantry Brigade instructions No.1; Amendment to operation order No. 194; Amendment to operation order No. 210; Warning order; Special order of the Day.The diary opens at Ovillers Huts on 1 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Nieurlet, Road Camp, Morchies, Neuilly L'Hopital and Maroeuil. 1918 at Beugny and Courcelles Le Comte. It closes at Courcelles Le Comte on 26 January 1918. Nieurlet is where it spent longest, 26 days, including a single unbroken stay of 26 and it came back to Maroeuil three separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Maroeuil Wood and Metz Havrincourt Wood.In 1917 it is also recorded at Aveluy, Ovillers, Frasers Post Courcellette And Firing Line, Firing Line Wolfe Huts, Wolfe Huts, Bouzincourt, Puchevilliers, Longuevillette, Mesnil-Domqueur and Marcheville.

• 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: 9781474528719
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press