1 INDIAN CAVALRY DIVISION Mhow Cavalry Brigade, Brigade Signal Troop, Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, Mhow Pioneer Battalion, Royal Army Veterinary Corps Mobile Veterinary Section, Brigade Supply Officer and Brigade Transport Officer

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 1 INDIAN CAVALRY DIVISION Mhow Cavalry Brigade, Brigade Signal Troop, Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, Mhow Pioneer Battalion, Royal Army Veterinary Corps Mobile Veterinary Section, Brigade Supply Officer and Brigade Transport Officer, covering December 1914 to December 1916 across 283 pages. It names 93 places across 209 dated entries. The diary opens at Marvilles on 19 December 1914. 1914 is spent at Orleans, Marvilles and In Aruin. 1915 at Nedonchelle, Selincourt, Fontaine-Lez-Hermans, Le Rons and Mazinghem. 1916 is the most travelled year, 80 places against 49 in the next busiest, and is spent at Valines, Douriez, Roellecourt, Cambligneul and Belloy. It closes at Belloy on 31 December 1916. Valines is where it spent longest, 207 days across eight separate stays, it came back to Nedonchelle ten separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 36 days at Gemenghem. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Fricourt Farm and Serre Sector of Trenches. In 1915 it is also recorded at Clarques, Gemenghem, Therouanne, Marles, Estree Blanche, Estre Blanche, De Roms, Zuytpeene, Houtkerque and Matou Belgium. In 1916 it is also recorded at Maizicourt, Noyelle, Mazicourt, Ivergny, Authieule, Doullens, Magicourt, Maigicourt, Mont Louis Ferm and Heirmont.