5 DIVISION Divisional Troops 205 Machine Gun Company : 24 October 1916 - 30 November 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1539/2)

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 205 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 5th Division, covering October 1916 to November 1917 across 55 pages. It names 26 places across 36 dated entries. The diary opens at Belton Park on 24 October 1916. 1916 is spent at Belton Park. 1917 at Roclincourt, Elmstead Essex, Canadian M.G.C Camp, Ourton and In Action. It closes at St. Pol on 30 November 1917. Belton Park is where it spent longest, 110 days, including a single unbroken stay of 110 and it came back to Roclincourt five separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Ridge Wood. In 1917 it is also recorded at Grantham, Southampton, Havre, Bethune, Ferfay, Chateau-De-La-Haie, Carency, Liencourt, Oppy and Hellebrouck.