42 DIVISION 127 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company: 1 March 1917 - 28 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2661/3) (War Diaries ... of Official War Office Wo95 Documents)

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company, 127 Infantry Brigade, 42nd Division, covering March 1917 to February 1918 across 83 pages. It names 35 places across 49 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one report or narrative, eight maps and four diagrams. Among the papers are: 127th M.G. Coy. defence orders. The diary opens at Alexandria on 1 March 1917. 1917 is spent at Achiet-Le-Petit, Havrincourt Wood, Givenchy, Coxyde and Nieuport. 1918 at Givenchy Right, Essars and Labeuvriere. It closes at Labeuvriere on 28 February 1918. Achiet-Le-Petit is where it spent longest, 42 days, it came back to Essars four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 30 days at Havrincourt Wood. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Havrincourt Wood. In 1917 it is also recorded at H.M.T. Corsican, Marseilles, Vaux, Fontaine Sur Somme, Chuignes, Dompierre, Peronne, Peizieres, Longavesnes and Neuville.