25 DIVISION 7 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company, 7 Infantry Brigade, 25th Division, covering January 1916 to October 1918 across 185 pages. It names 37 places across 47 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries six reports, narratives and plans, five Operation Orders and one appendix. Among the papers are: Relief Orders. (No. 1); Relief orders; Operation order No. 9. The diary opens at Ploegsteert on 12 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Le Bizet, Somme, Bailleul, Mt. St. Eloy and Penin. 1917 at Reninghelst, Ploegsteert, Wulverghem, Plebrouck and Carters Camp. 1918 at Candas and Gezaincourt. It closes at Candas on 30 October 1918. Reninghelst is where it spent longest, 126 days, including a single unbroken stay of 126 and it came back to Ploegsteert three separate times. In 1916 it is also recorded at La Becque, Robecq, Brias, Herlin Le Vert, Longuevillete, Halloy Les Pernois, Halloy-Lez Pernois, Puchevillers, Ribeaucourt and Gezaincourt. In 1917 it is also recorded at Bleu, Strazeele, Wallon Cappel, Quelmes, Cormette, Ebblinghem, Vieux Berquin, Havers-Kerque, Rely and Delette.