57 DIVISION 172 Infantry Brigade Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) 2/5th Battalion

28 January 1917 - 26 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2985/10)

298 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 2/5th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), 172 Infantry Brigade, 57th Division, covering January 1917 to February 1918 across 289 pages. It names 34 places across 60 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries fifteen reports, narratives and plans, twenty-six Operation Orders, two defence schemes, five appendices, two maps and seven diagrams. Among the papers are: Intelligence Report. from 6 a.m. to 6. p.m., 9th. August, 1917. Flamengrie Subsector; Intelligence Report. from 6 p.m. 10th. Aug. 1917 to 6 a.m., 11th Aug., 1917. Flamengrie; Report on Hostile Barrage and Expected raid on Rue Du Bois Subsector night 6/7th; Report on Entry of Boche Raiding Party in Rue Du Bois Salient, night July; Orders for Minor operations; 2/5th. S. Lan. R., operation order No. 42; Brigade Trench to Trench attack 2/5th. S. Lan, R., Preliminary orders; Brigade Trench to Trench attack; Administrative Arrangements. in Connection with Brigade "Trench to Trench Attack"; With Reference to operation order No. 43; 2/5th. Bn. S. Lan. R. Administrative instructions; Administrative Instructions, No. 2.The diary opens at Blackdown Hants on 28 January 1917. 1917 is the most travelled year, 44 places against 8 in the next busiest, and is spent at Trenches Bois Grenier, Rue Marle, Laires, Landrethun And Yeuse and Blackdown Hants. 1918 is spent at Steenwerck, Pont-De Nieppe, Houplines, Boesinghe and Armentieres. It closes at Steenwerck on 26 February 1918. Trenches Bois Grenier is where it spent longest, 67 days across nine separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 24 days at Steenwerck.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches Bois Grenier.In 1917 it is also recorded at Folkestone, Boulogne, Bailleul, Oultersteene, Sailly, Erquinghem Lys, Rue Dormoire Near Erquinghem-Lys, La Rolanderie, Erquinghem La Rolanderie and Flamengrie Sub. In 1918 it is also recorded at Houplines Left Sub.

• 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: 9781474530767
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press