55 DIVISION 165 Infantry Brigade King's (Liverpool Regiment) 9th Battalion

1 January 1916 - 28 February 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2927/2)

204 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 9th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment), 165 Infantry Brigade, 55th Division, covering January 1916 to February 1919 across 197 pages. It names 81 places across 116 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries four reports, narratives and plans. Among the papers are: 55th (West Lancashire) Division order of the Day.The diary opens at G23 And G24 on 1 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Wailly, Ypres, Merelessart and Hocquincourt. 1917 at Lisbourg, Blanc Pignon, Ypres, Bollezeele and Proven. 1918 at Guillemont Farm. 1919 at Uccle. It closes at Uccle on 28 February 1919. Wailly is where it spent longest, 98 days across four separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 52 and it came back to Ypres twelve separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Ypres Railway Wood, Railway Wood, Wailly Trenches, Ypres Trenches, Oxford Trench, Vaughans Bank, Trones Wood and Montauban Alley Reserve Trenches.In 1916 it is also recorded at Philosophe, Longpres, Berteaucourt, Berles-Au-Bois Monchiet, Beaumetz Les-Loges, Wailly Trenches Beaumetz, Wailly Village, Gouy, Sus-St-Leger and Halloy. In 1917 it is also recorded at Z Camp, Proven And Ypres, Ypres Railway Wood, Brandhoek "C" Camp, Railway Wood, "C" Camp, Ecole Ypres, "B" Camp, Potijze and Wieltje.

• 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: 9781474529587
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press