24 DIVISION 72 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company: 9 March 1916 - 28 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2215/2) (War Diaries - ... of Official War Office Wo95 Documents)

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company, 72 Infantry Brigade, 24th Division, covering March 1916 to September 1917 across 107 pages. It names 60 places across 65 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two reports, narratives and plans and seven Operation Orders. Among the papers are: Correction to operation order No. 2; Operation order No. 7. The diary opens at Grantham on 9 March 1916. 1916 is spent at Trenches Hulluch, Kammel Wulverghem, Petit Pont, Monfliers and La Levrette. 1917 is the most travelled year, 34 places against 27 in the next busiest, and is spent at Bully Grenay & Calonne, Allouagne, Watterdal and Trenches Double Crassier and Calonne Sector. It closes at Villeret on 28 September 1917. Trenches Hulluch is where it spent longest, 61 days across three separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Kammel Wulverghem. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches Hulluch, Trenches Double Crassier and Calonne Sector, Trenches Delville Wood Dernancourt, Trenches to Minden Post, Gouy Servins to Mazingarbe Trenches 24, Trenches Mont Sorrel, Trenches German Front Line System and Brandhoek & Trenches Hooge. In 1916 it is also recorded at Southampton, Havre, Poperinghe, Ouderdon, Dranoutre, H.Q. Beaver Hall, Wulverghem, Locre, Morlancourt and Trenches to Minden Post. In 1917 it is also recorded at Trenches Hulluch Sector and Mazingarbe, Trenches German Front Line System, City St. Pierre, Fosse 10, Allouagne to Ligny Lez Aire, Glem, Ligny Lez Aire Boeseghem, Boeseghem, Boeschepe and Brandhoek & Trenches Hooge.