66 DIVISION 197 Infantry Brigade Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 10th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 2/6th, 2/7th and 2/8th Battalion

3 October 1915 - 31 July 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/3136)

480 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 10th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 2/6th, 2/7th and 2/8th Battalion, 197 Infantry Brigade, 66th Division, covering October 1915 to October 1918 across 464 pages. It names 163 places across 257 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries six casualty and personnel returns, thirty-one reports, narratives and plans, 63 Operation Orders, one defence scheme, nine appendices and two maps. Among the papers are: Casualties during month of October 1917; List of casualties during month of November 1917; March 1918 Missing; Patrol II; Patrol report a; Patrol report B; Daylight Patrol report C; Addenda to operation order No. 75; 2/7 Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers operation order No. 71; Corrigenda to operation order No. 73; 2/7th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers operation order No. 1; Movement order.The diary opens at Crowborough on 3 October 1915. 1915 is spent at Tunbridge Wells and Crowborough. 1916 at Tunbridge Wells and Hartfield. 1917 at Givenchy, Gorre, Staple, Windy Corner and Bavinchove. 1918 at Woignarue, Haut Visee, Lancheres, Haudricourt and Brutelles. It closes at Haudricourt on 15 October 1918. Tunbridge Wells is where it spent longest, 260 days across five separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 104 and it came back to Givenchy eighteen separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Low Farm and Esparna De Sap Ypres.In 1915 it is also recorded at Crowboro. In 1917 it is also recorded at Colchester, Southampton, Le. Havre, Berguette, Les Ciseaux, Thiennes, Paradis, Parades, Bethune and Beuvry. In 1918 it is also recorded at Bavinchove, Winnepeg Camp, Devonshire Camp, Ypres, Canal, Reninghelst Vancoover Camp, Support Battalion, Right Front, Hussar Camp and Vancouver Camp.

• 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: 9781474534338
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press