1 DIVISION 1 Infantry Brigade Machine Gun Company

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Machine Gun Company, 1 Infantry Brigade, 1st Division, covering January 1916 to November 1916 across 162 pages. It names 21 places across 39 dated entries. The diary opens at Allouagne on 23 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Grenay, Les Brebis, Maroc, Allouagne and Frirevlles. It closes at Becourt on 30 November 1916. Grenay is where it spent longest, 47 days across six separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 25 days at Frirevlles. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Mametz Wood. In 1916 it is also recorded at Loos, Calonne, Barlin, Wargnies, Mollens-Au-Bois, Baizieux, Albert, N.of Somme, S. Of Somme and Becourt S.B. Bazintin-Le-Petit.