56 DIVISION Divisional Troops Cheshire Regiment 1/5th Battalion Pioneers, Machine Gun Corps 56 Battalion and 193 Machine Gun Company

1 January 1916 - 28 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2943)

938 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Cheshire Regiment 1/5th Battalion Pioneers, Machine Gun Corps 56 Battalion and 193 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 56th Division, covering January 1916 to April 1919 across 919 pages. It names 109 places across 173 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 119 reports, narratives and plans, 97 Operation Orders, three appendices, seven maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: 56th Divisional Engineers operation order No. 100; Royal Army Medical Corps order No. 90; Royal Army Medical Corps order No. 91; Addendum No. 1 to 56th Division order No. 193; Administrative instructions No. 1 issued with Reference to 56th Div. order No. 193; 56th Division Royal Army Medical Corps order No. 89; 56th Divisional Engineers Technical Instruction No. 1; 56th Division Warning order numbered 199 to 215 (3 of them); Table "A" to Accompany 56th Division order No. 200; Amendment No 1 to 56th Division order numbered 1 to 211 (3 of them); Table A. to accompany 169th Inf. Bde. order No. 206; Table B. to accompany 169th. Inf Bde order No 206.The diary opens at Bray on 1 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Souastre, Laventie, Grand Rullecourt, Bray and Hallencourt. 1917 at Fremicourt, Laventie, Arras, Achicourt and Telegraph Hill. 1918 at Warlus, Arras, Estree Cauchie, 51B NW France St Catherine and Villers Saint Ghislain. 1919 at Jemappes Near Mons Belgium and Jemappes Belgium. It closes at Jemappes Near Mons Belgium on 30 April 1919. Laventie is where it spent longest, 182 days across ten separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 87 days at Fremicourt.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau Segard, Contour Wood, Les Fosses Farm, Les Fosses Farm Rear Villers-Cagnicourt. Advanced, Chateau De La Nail and La Bazeque Farm.In 1916 it is also recorded at Bray-Sur-Somme, Corbie, Saint Gratien, Breilly And Picquigny, Domart-En-Ponthieu, Authieule, Givenchy Le Noble, Doullens, Heirmont and St Riquier. In 1917 it is also recorded at Merville, Hamet Billet, Pernes, Pronay, Le Cauroy, Siemen Court, Monchiet, Wailly, Souastre and Agnez. In 1918 it is also recorded at St Catherine Arras, Mont St Eloy, Cambligneul, Bailleul Aux Cornailles, Bailleul-Aux-Corneilles, St Catherines, St Aubin, Chateau De La Nail, Ronville Caves Arras and Warlus No. 1 Camp. In 1919 it is also recorded at Jemappes.

• 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: 9781474529914
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press