50 DIVISION Divisional Troops 245 Machine Gun Company

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 245 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 50th Division, covering July 1915 to March 1918 across 159 pages. It names 33 places across 40 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries nine reports, narratives and plans, 50 Operation Orders, one defence scheme, three appendices, eleven maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: 30th. Division Intelligence Summary No. 102. from 12 Noon 15.9.17 to 12 Noon 16.9.17; Machine Gun Group 50th Division operation order No. 1 Appx No. 5; Appendix No. 1. to 50th Division Provincional defence Instructions. Machine Gun defence; No. 245 Machine Gun Coy. operation order No. 29. Appx No. 11; 50th Division operation order No. 156 Appx No. 12; Relief orders. O.C. M.G. Group in the Line. Appx No. 2; XIX Corps Administrative instructions No. 98 Appx 14. The diary opens at Grantham on 15 July 1915. 1915 is spent at Mercatel & Trenches, Havre, Grantham and Southampton. 1917 at Carlisle Camp, Hellebroucq, Achiet Le Petit and In The Line Passchendaele Sector. 1918 at Foucaucourt, Vauvillers, Harbonnieres, Caix and Domart. It closes at Sains-En-Amienois on 31 March 1918. Carlisle Camp is where it spent longest, 24 days, including a single unbroken stay of 22 and it came back to Hellebroucq three separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Mercatel & Trenches. In 1915 it is also recorded at Fourcart Alvamare, Romscamps Boisleux-au Mont, Boisleux Au Mont and Mercatel. In 1917 it is also recorded at Achiet-Le-Petit Lens II 1/100,000, Hellebroucq Hazebrouck 5A 1/100,000 27A 1/20,000, La Cloche Refn Hazebrouck 5A 1/100,000, Proven, Friedland Fm, Sutton Camp and In The Line Passchendaele. In 1918 it is also recorded at Blangy-Tronville, Beaumetz St. Cren, Chaulnes, Ignaucourt, Demuin and Boves.