42 DIVISION Divisional Troops Machine Gun Corps 42 Battalion: 13 January 1918 - 30 June 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2650/5)

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 42 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, Divisional Troops, 42nd Division, covering January 1918 to June 1919 across 202 pages. It names 28 places across 40 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries four reports, narratives and plans, twenty-one Operation Orders, two appendices and four maps. Among the papers are: Warning Order.; Amendment to 42nd. Battalion, M.G.C. order No. 27; March Table to Accompany 42nd. Battn. M.G.C. order No. 27. The diary opens at Grantham on 13 January 1918. 1918 is spent at Hautmont, Couin, Pas, Beauvois and La Beuvriere. 1919 at Velaine, Mungersdorf and Montigny. It closes at Mungersdorf on 30 June 1919. Velaine is where it spent longest, 96 days across five separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Adinfer Wood. In 1918 it is also recorded at Southampton, Havre, Bethune Locon, Locon, Gorre, Fouquieres, Adinfer Wood, Fonquevillers, St Amand and Henu.