21 DIVISION 110 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, 110 Infantry Brigade, 21st Division, covering January 1916 to February 1918 across 142 pages. It names 64 places across 99 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, nine reports, narratives and plans, fifteen Operation Orders and four appendices. Among the papers are: Casualties Sustained by 110th Machine Gun Company during Period 18th Septr-22nd Sept 1917; Tactical and Technical Lessons learnt during operations of 20/9/17; Operation orders, 110th Machine Gun Company; Operation order, 110 Machine Gun Company; Detailed orders 110th Machine Gun Company Appendix "A"; Report on the action of 110th Machine Gun Company Whilst attached to the 39th Division; Details Orders-110th Machine Gun Company Appendix "A". The diary opens at Lequesnoit on 21 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Lequesnoit, Vermelles, Arras, Montauban and Auchel. 1917 is the most travelled year, 49 places against 32 in the next busiest, and is spent at St Leger, Moyenneville, Hamelincourt, Auchel and Noyelles. 1918 at Epehy, Saulcourt Wood, Hamel and Longavesnes. It closes at Hamel on 28 February 1918. Lequesnoit is where it spent longest, 187 days, including a single unbroken stay of 184 and it came back to Vermelles six separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Polygon Wood, Saulcourt Wood, Chateau Segard, Mametz Wood, Pommiers Redoubt, Fricourt Wood and Ridge Wood. In 1916 it is also recorded at Humbercamps, La Bazeque, Talmas, Meaulte, Fricourt, Mametz Wood, Gouy, Lattre St Quentin, Montenescourt and Berlencourt. In 1917 it is also recorded at Proven, Briel, Bethune, Vermelles, Humbercamp, Boyelles, Hinden Burg Line, Bienvillers, Blairville and Monchiet. In 1918 it is also recorded at Epehy Right.