25 DIVISION 75 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company: 19 December 1915 - 1 May 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2251/5)

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company, 75 Infantry Brigade, 25th Division, covering December 1915 to February 1918 across 107 pages. It names 84 places across 114 dated entries. The diary opens at Grantham on 19 December 1915. 1915 is spent at Grantham. 1916 at Neuville-St-Vaast, Romarin, Le Romarin, Bailleul and Grossart. 1917 is the most travelled year, 55 places against 41 in the next busiest, and is spent at Le Bizet, Le Preol, Bleu Tour, Eecke and La Creche. 1918 at Favreul, Lagnicourt and Buchanan Camp Achiet Le Petit. It closes at Buchanan Camp Achiet Le Petit on 28 February 1918. Grantham is where it spent longest, 83 days, including a single unbroken stay of 83 and it came back to Favreul four separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Beck Trench and Belgian Chateau. In 1916 it is also recorded at Southampton, Le Havre, Abbeville, St Pol, Aubigny, Neuvill-St-Vaast, Bethonsart, Neuville-au-Cornet, Bonnieres and Bernaville. In 1917 it is also recorded at Carters Camp De Seule, Romarin, Wardrecques, Seninghem, Cormette, Renescure, Swartenbrouck, Neuve Eglise, Steen-Je and Erquinghem-Lts.