55 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Adjutant and Quarter-Master General

1 November 1917 - 30 April 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2910)

790 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services Adjutant and Quarter-Master General, 55th Division, covering November 1917 to April 1919 across 770 pages. It names 23 places across 39 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two lists of honours and awards, nineteen casualty and personnel returns, 201 reports, narratives and plans and fourteen appendices. Among the papers are: Honours & rewards; Nominal roll of Officers, W.O'S., N.C.O's., and Men of the 55th (West Lancashire); Statement of casualties from 20/11/17 to 23/11/17; Statement of casualties from Noon 29/11/17 to Map 4/12/17; Routine orders 55th (West Lancashire) Division; Routine order 55th (West Lancashire) Division.The diary opens at Villers Faucon on 1 November 1917. 1917 is spent at Villers Faucon, Bomy and Hermaville. 1918 at Drouvin Chateau, Bomy, Locon, ATH and Cysoing. 1919 at Uccle. It closes at Uccle on 30 April 1919. Drouvin Chateau is where it spent longest, 147 days across six separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Bomy.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Drouvin Chateau, Cambre Chateau and Beuvry Mill.In 1918 it is also recorded at Hinges, Les Caudrons, Oblinghem, Fouquieres Les Bethune, Auchel, Verquin, Gosnay, Beuvry Mill, Salome and Ancoisne.

• 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: 9781474529372
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press