1 CAVALRY DIVISION 2 Cavalry Brigade 2 Machine Gun Squadron, 'H' and 'L' Battery Royal Horse Artillery and Brigade Pioneer Battalion

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 2 Machine Gun Squadron, 'H' and 'L' Battery Royal Horse Artillery and Brigade Pioneer Battalion, 2 Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, covering August 1914 to March 1919 across 426 pages. It names 203 places across 326 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two reports, narratives and plans, two appendices and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Operation order, 2nd Machine Gun Squadron. The diary opens at Aldershot on 5 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Aldershot and France. 1916 at Enquin, Preures, Querrieu, La Neuville and Mesnil. 1917 at Preures, Enquin, Tincques, Les Amusoires and Menty. 1918 is the most travelled year, 143 places against 99 in the next busiest, and is spent at Courcelles, Jean Court, Saulchoy, St Remy Aux Bois and Sarton. 1919 at Cologne and Deutz Cologne. It closes at Cologne on 31 March 1919. Enquin is where it spent longest, 190 days across seven separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 63 and it came back to Preures twenty-three separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Cookers Quarry and Vaux Wood. In 1916 it is also recorded at Beussent, Raye-Sur-Authie, Mezerolles, Berteaucourt Les. Dames, Metigny, Yille-Sous Corbie, Incheville, Gousseauville, Allery and Lannoy Valley. In 1917 it is also recorded at Tilques, Ergny, Noyelles, Wierre Au Bois, Maninghem, Anvin, Monchy, Frevin Capelle, Frevent Capelle and St. Laurent Blangey. In 1918 it is also recorded at Templeux Ie Guerard, Courcelles Jeancourt, Cookers Quarry, Roisel, Vraignes, Mons, Brusle, Lecatalet, Brie Barleux and Berny-En Santerre. In 1919 it is also recorded at Cologne on the R.Hine Germany.