50 DIVISION Divisional Troops Machine Gun Corps 50 Battalion

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 50 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, Divisional Troops, 50th Division, covering April 1918 to April 1919 across 185 pages. It names 23 places across 30 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 45 reports, narratives and plans and two appendices. Among the papers are: 50th Battn. Machine Gun Corps. operation order No. 1; Operation order No. 503; 50th Battalion Machine Gun Corps. order No. 3; 50th Bn. M.G.C. order No. 8 Appendix No. 1 (B); 50th Bn. M.G.C. order No. 9 Appendix No. 1(C); Schedule with order No. 23; Corrigenda No. 1 to 50th Battn M.G. Corps. order No. 7; March Table to Accompany 50th Bn. M.G. Corps order No. 7; 50th Battn. M.G. Corps order No. 7 Appendix 1 (A); 50th Division operation order No. 250 Appendix No 3; Amendment No. 1 to operation order No. 29 Appendix No. 6; Preliminary instructions for operations to Take place on Z Day. Appendix No. 8. The diary opens at Saleux on 1 April 1918. 1918 is spent at Rust, Robecq, Gd Quiestede, Petit Quiestede and Crugny. 1919 at Beaudignies and Saultain. It closes at Beaudignies on 30 April 1919. Beaudignies is where it spent longest, 61 days, it came back to Rust four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Rust. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include La Motte Chateau. In 1918 it is also recorded at Argoules Sur-Somme, Dominois, Argoules And Robecq, Robecq and Mt Bernandon, Robermetz, Estaires, Morbecque, Chiennes, La Motte Chateau and Quiestede.