50 DIVISION 151 Infantry Brigade Durham Light Infantry 1/5th, 1/6th, 1/7th and 1/9th Battalion

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 1/9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry 1/5th, 1/6th, 1/7th and, 151 Infantry Brigade, 50th Division, covering April 1915 to November 1918 across 701 pages. It names 211 places across 371 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries four reports, narratives and plans, two appendices and one map. Among the papers are: Battalion orders Comdg 6th Durham L I; Special order of the Day Haig K.T. G. K.C.I.E. G. A.D.C. Commander-In Chief British. The diary opens at Gateshead Boulogne on 19 April 1915. 1915 is spent at Armentieres, Houplines, Kemmel, Steenwerck and Ypres. 1916 at Ypres, Mametz Wood, La Clytte, Warloy and Left-L-Sector. 1917 is the most travelled year, 121 places against 83 in the next busiest, and is spent at Moulle, Houlle, Gomiecourt, Mericourt Sur Somme and St Amand. 1918 at Roven, Rouen, Rouxmesnil, Broyes and Marcelcave. It closes at Roven on 6 November 1918. Armentieres is where it spent longest, 201 days across sixteen separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 76 days at Rouen. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Mametz Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Front System Of Trenches, Maple Copse, Support Trenches, Hulls Farm Boesinge, Aircraft Farm and Somme Trenches. In 1915 it is also recorded at Bavinchove, Boulogne, Ryveld, Terdeghem, Vlamertinghe, Verlorenhoek, Potijze, Nr. Ypres, Watou and St Janter Biezen. In 1916 it is also recorded at Sanctuary Wood, Maple Copse, Dickebusch, Ypres I 24 D7.0, A7-A12 Yprs, Scottish Lines, Bedford Ho, La Clytte M.12.9.9, L. Sub and Vierstraat. In 1917 it is also recorded at Bazentin, High Wood West, Factory Corner, Support Trenches, Front System Of Trenches, Becourt, Camp Site 4-Bazentin Le Petit, Ribemont, Hamel and Proyart. In 1918 it is also recorded at St Jean Camp, Seine Th 28, Hamburg, Potijze, Steenvoorde, Aquin, Acquin-Brandhoek, Toronto Camp Brandhoek, Brandhoek and Sunderland Camp Nr Potize.