5 DIVISION 14 Infantry Brigade Devonshire Regiment 1st Battalion and Cheshire Regiment 5th (Reserve) Battalion

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Devonshire Regiment 1st Battalion and Cheshire Regiment 5th (Reserve) Battalion, 14 Infantry Brigade, 5th Division, covering August 1914 to December 1915 across 253 pages. It names 44 places across 117 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries twenty-two reports, narratives and plans. Among the papers are: 1st Devon. Regiment Intelligence report; 1st Devon. Regiment Intelligence officers report; Intelligence report 1st Devon Regt; Intelligence report 1st Devon; Instructions for the Inspector-General of Communications. Appendix K 10. The diary opens at Jersey on 21 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Wulverghem, St. Jans Cappel, Chapigny, Neuve Eglise and Rouen. 1915 is the most travelled year, 81 places against 19 in the next busiest, and is spent at Maricourt, Ypres, Neuve Eglise, Suzanne and Oosthoek. It closes at Suzanne on 31 December 1915. Maricourt is where it spent longest, 147 days across eleven separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 29 and it came back to Neuve Eglise twelve separate times. In 1914 it is also recorded at Havre, Amiens, Festubert, Lestrem, Vieille Chapelle, La Couture, Estaires, Meteren and Dranoutre. In 1915 it is also recorded at Bailleul, Wulverghem, Cambridge, Southampton, Havre, Kemmel, Locre, St. Hubertushoek, Dickebusch and Kruisstraat.