59 DIVISION 178 Infantry Brigade 175 Machine Gun Company

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 175 Machine Gun Company, 178 Infantry Brigade, 59th Division, covering October 1916 to February 1918 across 141 pages. It names 43 places across 51 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries ten Operation Orders, four appendices and one map. The diary opens at Belton Park Grantham on 24 October 1916. 1916 is spent at Belton Park Grantham. 1917 at Bernes, Carency, Equancourt, Roisel and Gouzeaucourt Wood. 1918 at Northumberland Camp Mercatel and Barly. It closes at Northumberland Camp Mercatel on 14 February 1918. Belton Park Grantham is where it spent longest, 108 days, including a single unbroken stay of 108 and it came back to Bernes three separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Gouzeaucourt Wood. In 1917 it is also recorded at Aldershot, Southampton, Transport, Havre, Longeau, Glisy, Warfusee, Mericourt, Foucaucourt and Estrees.