74 (YEOMANRY) DIVISION 231 Infantry Brigade Headquarters, King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) 10th Battalion, Welsh Regiment 24th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers 25th Battalion and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery

1 May 1918 - 28 January 1919 (First World

532 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) 10th Battalion, Welsh Regiment 24th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers 25th Battalion and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, 231 Infantry Brigade, 74th Division, covering May 1918 to June 1919 across 519 pages. It names 87 places across 130 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 60 casualty and personnel returns, 34 reports, narratives and plans, 56 Operation Orders, six defence schemes, one appendix and seven maps. Among the papers are: Details of casualties to officers; Daily Casualty Return 231st Infantry Brigade; Narrative of operations from 2nd September 1918 to 28th September 1918; Administrative instructions issued with Brigade order No.32; March Table issued with 231st Infantry Brigade order No. 33; March Table issued with 231st Brigade order No. 36; Table to Accompany 231st Inf. Bde. order No. 40; Instructions for Relief of 183rd Inf. Brigade Ref. 231st Inf. Brigade order No. 40; Orders for the Demolition of Bridges; Orders for A. A. Lewis & Vickers Gun Positions; Amendment to 231st Infantry Brigade Warning order No. 41; Divisional Routine order 74th (Yeomanry) Division.The diary opens at Gabbary Dks on 1 May 1918. 1918 is spent at Grammont, Lattre St Quentin, Hamet Billet, Canchy and St Hilaire. 1919 at Grammont, Overboelaere Belgium and Brussels. It closes at Grammont on 21 June 1919. Grammont is where it spent longest, 503 days across fifteen separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 90.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau De Breuze, Trigger Wood, La Rosiere Farm and Chateau Coc Queraum Ont.In 1918 it is also recorded at H M T Canberra, Alexandria Gabbary "A" Camp, High Seas, Marseilles, Massuilles, Mousso Camp, Train, En Route, Noyelles and Domvast. In 1919 it is also recorded at Overboelaere.

• 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: 9781474534758
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press