John Knowles's a Separate Peace

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 124 Infantry Brigade, 41st Division, covering January 1917 to October 1917 across 757 pages. It names 22 places across 30 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one list of honours and awards, one casualty and personnel return, 254 reports, narratives and plans, 39 Operation Orders, one defence scheme, eleven appendices, eleven maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: Nominal roll of officers and Men Awarded Decorations and Not Received Ribands; List of Casualties-June 7th 1917; Report on operations; 124th. Infantry Brigade Summary of Intelligence; 124th. Infantry Brigade Intelligence Summary; Intelligence Summaries issued during Period 1st to 21st March 1917; Intelligence Summary 124th Infantry Brigade; 124 Infantry Brigade operation order No. 95; Amendment and Additions to 124th Infantry Brigade order No. 95; Report of raid carried out by 10th Bn. Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment; Amendment to 124th. Infantry Brigade order No. 98; Administrative orders. The diary opens at Laclytte on 1 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Laclytte, St Eloi, Reninghelst, Klein Zillebeke and Steenvoorde. It closes at Teteghem Area on 31 October 1917. Laclytte is where it spent longest, 81 days across three separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Burgomaster Farm. In 1917 it is also recorded at Camps Near Reninghelst, Burgomaster Farm, St Eloisector, Ganspette, Reninghelst Steloi, Berthen Area, Tatinghem Area, Tatinghem Training, Wallon Cappel and Thieushouk Area.…