20 DIVISION 60 Infantry Brigade King's Royal Rifle Corps 12th Battalion and Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the King's Royal Rifle Corps 12th Battalion and Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion, 60 Infantry Brigade, 20th Division, covering July 1915 to May 1919 across 396 pages. It names 242 places across 363 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, two reports, narratives and plans, two maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Casualties during the Engagements Were As Follows; 6th (Ser) Bn order Bucks L I; 6th. Ser. Battn. Oxf. &. Bucks. Lt. Infty. History of the attack on 7th Oct. 1916. The diary opens at Larkhill Camp Salis Gum Plain on 21 July 1915. 1915 is spent at Winchester Post, La Bassee Road, Outtersteen, Laventie and Fleurbaix. 1916 is the most travelled year, 126 places against 100 in the next busiest, and is spent at Ypres, Corbie, Poperinghe, Boesinghe Trenches and Morbecque. 1917 at Loop, No 5 Camp Carnoy, Neuville, Mericourt and Haplincourt. 1918 at Couin, Offoy, Magnicourt, Columbia Camp and Front Line Avion-Lens. 1919 at Wormhoudt. It closes at Wormhoudt on 19 May 1919. Couin is where it spent longest, 121 days, including a single unbroken stay of 120 and it came back to Winchester Post eight separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Boesinghe Trenches, Trenches Zillebeke, Trones Wood, Havrincourt Wood, Villers Pluich Trenches, Trenches Rue Pettilon, Malakoff Farm and St. Jean Trenches. In 1915 it is also recorded at Havre, Boulogne, Acquin, Quelmes, Rest Camp, Campagne, Borre, Pradelles, Oultersteene and Oulterstein. In 1916 it is also recorded at Rouge De Bout, Billets Nr Fluer Baix, Trenches Rue Pettilon, Fromelles, Rue Pettilon, Rue De Quesnes, Steenvoorde, Saint Sylvestre Cappel, Watou and Pilkem Road. In 1917 it is also recorded at Meaulte Huts, Bouleaux Wood, Bronfay Camp, Combles, Bronfay Farm, In Line, Guillemont, Camp No 5 Carnoy, No 4 Camp Carnoy and Carnoy Camp No 5. In 1918 it is also recorded at Ebblinghem, Dickebusch, Reninghelst, Polderhoek, Stirling Castle, Piolderhoek Stirling Castle, Bellegoed Farm, Kruistraat-Hoek-Stirling Castle, Blaringhem and Ognolles.