23 DIVISION Divisional Troops 194 Machine Gun Company: 12 December 1916 - 31 October 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2178/1) (War Diaries - ... of Official War Office Wo95 Documents)

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 194 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 23rd Division, covering December 1916 to October 1917 across 87 pages. It names 4 places across 22 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three reports, narratives and plans, one Operation Order and one map. Among the papers are: 194th Machine Gun Company report on operation of 20th Feb 1917; 194 Machine Gun Company operation order No. 2; Operation order No. 1. The diary opens at Southampton on 12 December 1916. 1916 is spent at Belgium, Havre and Southampton. 1917 at Belgium and France. It closes at France on 31 October 1917. Belgium is where it spent longest, 260 days across eleven separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 75.