37 DIVISION Divisional Troops Machine Gun Corps 37 Battalion: 4 March 1918 - 31 May 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2524/3) (War Diaries - ... of Official War Office Wo95 Documents)

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 37 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, Divisional Troops, 37th Division, covering March 1918 to May 1919 across 136 pages. It names 24 places across 63 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two reports, narratives and plans, 36 Operation Orders, five maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Special report on operations (M/G) on Left Sector. by Lt H.G. Stearns O.C. "D" Coy Advd; Operations orders No 21 DSO 37th Bn Machine Gun Corps. The diary opens at Bristol Camp Dickebusch on 4 March 1918. 1918 is spent at Bucquoy, Bois Du Warnimont, Hebuterne Div and Bristol Camp & Line. 1919 at Gosselies and Mulheim. It closes at Mulheim on 31 May 1919. Bucquoy is where it spent longest, 61 days across four separate stays, it came back to Bois Du Warnimont sixteen separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 59 days at Gosselies. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Velu Wood and Authie Wood. In 1918 it is also recorded at Line & Bristol Camp, Nr Dickebusch Belgium, Marieux Authie Grenas, Authie Wood, Henu, Bucquoy Sector, Orville, Sailly au Bois, Cavillon, Conoy and Conty. In 1919 it is also recorded at Gosselies Belgium.