18 DIVISION 53 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company: 9 February 1916 - 31 December 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2040/3) (War ... of Official War Office Wo95 Documents) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474510884 ISBN 13: 9781474510882

Publisher: Naval & Military Press, 2015

Synopsis

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company, 53 Infantry Brigade, 18th Division, covering February 1916 to December 1917 across 203 pages. It names 85 places across 108 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one report or narrative, seven appendices, eleven maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: Report on Fighting 53rd Machine Gun Company. The diary opens at Havre on 9 February 1916. 1916 is the most travelled year, 60 places against 41 in the next busiest, and is spent at Bray, Albert, Lamotte Buleux, Ailly-Sur-Somme and Villers Brulin. 1917 is spent at Ypres Operations, Rubrouck, Pegwell Camp Proven, Steenvorde and Berguette Pas-De Calais. It closes at Marguerite Camp on 31 December 1917. Bray is where it spent longest, 72 days across five separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Lamotte Buleux. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Mouquet Farm, Zollern Trench, Authuile Wood, Longueval Delville Wood, Bailiff Wood, Bronfay Farm and Authville Wood. In 1916 it is also recorded at Franvillers, Etinehem, Sally Laurette, Daours, Longpre, Corbie, Southy-Le-Sec, Grovetown, Carnoy-Montaubon and Bronfay Farm. In 1917 it is also recorded at Drucat, Beaumetz, Gezaincourt, Puchevillers, Martinsart, Mouquet Farm, Hedauville, Zollern Trench, Mackenzie Huts and Petit Miraumont.

Edition details

• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474510884
• ISBN 13: 9781474510882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210