29 DIVISION Divisional Troops Machine Gun Corps 29 Battalion

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 29 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, Divisional Troops, 29th Division, covering February 1918 to October 1919 across 208 pages. It names 74 places across 87 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries thirteen reports, narratives and plans, twenty-four Operation Orders and two appendices. Among the papers are: 29th Division operations Instruction No. 1; 29th Division No. C.G.S 67/172 Warning order; 29th Bn, M.G. Corps order No. 42; March Table (To Accompany 29th Div. order No. 293); March Table issued with 88th Infantry Brigade order No. 230; 29th Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Move orders for 26th November 1918; 29th Bn. M.G. Corps Move orders for Nov 28th 1918. The diary opens at Line North Of Ypres on 1 February 1918. 1918 is spent at Blaringhem, La Motte and Steenvoorde. 1919 at Stumpf & Dabringhausen, Stumpf Nr Cologne and Stumpf, Germany. It closes at Stumpf Nr Cologne on 31 October 1919. Stumpf & Dabringhausen is where it spent longest, 122 days across three separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 46 and it came back to Steenvoorde four separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Braine-Le Chateau. In 1918 it is also recorded at Brandhoek, Dead End Ypres, Goudberg, St. Jan Ter Biezen, Neuf Berquin, N. Berquin, Neighbourhood Of N. Berquin, La Creche, Vieux Berquin and Neighbourhood F.V. Berquin. In 1919 it is also recorded at Stumpf Dabringhausen & Grunewald.