58 DIVISION Divisional Troops Machine Gun Corps 58 Battalion

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 58 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, Divisional Troops, 58th Division, covering December 1917 to May 1919 across 148 pages. It names 28 places across 36 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries eleven reports, narratives and plans, twenty-eight Operation Orders, two appendices, three maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Move orders; Amendment to operation order No. 9; Relief Table for 58th Battalion Machine Gun Corps order no. 12; Amendment to order No. 16; Forthcoming operations 58th (London) Divisional instructions No.4; Addendum No.1 to order No. 24; 58th (London) Divisional instructions No.4; Narrative of Events; Appendix 1 narrative of Events from September 6-25 58th Battalion Machine Gun Corps; 58th Battalion Machine Gun Corps Warning order; Instructions for Forthcoming operations. The diary opens at 58th Divisional Sector Astride River Oise on 20 December 1917. 1917 is spent at 58th Divisional Sector Astride River Oise. 1918 at Ebarts Farm, B19 Central, Glisy, Divisional Sector Astride River Oise and Contay. 1919 at Leuze and Roucourt. It closes at Leuze on 31 May 1919. Leuze is where it spent longest, 97 days across three separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 61. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Ebarts Farm, Key Wood, Fort Manoir Farm, Molliens Aux Bois Wood and Caterpillar Wood. In 1918 it is also recorded at Chauny, Quierzy, Blerancourt, Fort Manoir Farm, Yaucourt Bussus, Yaucourt Busses, Mirvaux, Molliens Au Bois, Fourdrinoy and Molliens Aux Bois Wood.