7 DIVISION Divisional Troops 220 Machine Gun Company

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 220 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 7th Division, covering March 1917 to July 1918 across 79 pages. It names 27 places across 35 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three reports, narratives and plans and one Operation Order. Among the papers are: 220 Machine Gun Company. Move order No. 4; 220 Machine Gun Company. Move order No. 5. The diary opens at Le Carve France on 18 March 1917. 1917 is spent at Courcelles, Mory, Ransart, Westbecourt and Chateau Segard. 1918 at Behagnies and Courcelles Le Comte. It closes at Behagnies on 24 July 1918. Courcelles is where it spent longest, 73 days across four separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 30. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau Segard. In 1917 it is also recorded at Acheux, Mailly-Maillet, Puisieux-Au-Mont, Pas En Artois, Beauvoorde, Hazebrouck, Arques, Wizernes, Westoutre and Chateau.