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63 (ROYAL NAVAL) DIVISION Divisional Troops Worcestershire Regiment 14th Battalion Pioneers and Machine Gun Corps 63 Battalion Machine Gun Corps: 20 J

63 (ROYAL NAVAL) DIVISION Divisional Troops Worcestershire Regiment 14th Battalion Pioneers and Machine Gun Corps 63 Battalion Machine Gun Corps: 20 J

Wo95/3105

Paperback

Series: War Diaries - Facsimile Reprints of Official War Office Wo95 Documents

Genealogy & HeraldryNaval HistoryWorld War I

ISBN10: 1474533868
ISBN13: 9781474533867
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: Dec 12 2015
Pages: 776
Weight: 4.02
Height: 1.54 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Worcestershire Regiment 14th Battalion Pioneers and Machine Gun Corps 63 Battalion Machine Gun Corps, Divisional Troops, 63rd Division, covering June 1916 to June 1919 across 750 pages. It names 146 places across 180 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 207 reports, narratives and plans, 66 Operation Orders, six appendices and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Report on operations of 63rd (RN) Machine Gun Battalion; Report on operations; Provisional order; Relief and March Table 63rd (R.N.) M.G Battn; Table to Accompany 63rd (RN) M.G Battalion order No.20; Fire orders; Amendment No.1 to operation order No. 25; Amendment No.3 to operation order No. 44; Appendix B Box Barrage; Appendix to Accompany operation order No.29; 63rd (RN) Machine Gun Battalion March Table to Accompany M.Gun operation order No.30; 63rd (RN) Machine Gun Battalion Administrative orders in Connection with operation order. The diary opens at Codford on 20 June 1916. 1916 is spent at Fosse 10, Bois De La Haie, Gans-En-Gohelle and Ternas. 1917 at Camiers, Browne Camp, Spreuwkot, Mt Bernenchon and Val De Maison. 1918 is the most travelled year, 86 places against 38 in the next busiest, and is spent at Acheux, Aulnois, Barastre, In The Line Rear H.Q. at Varennes and P.30 Central. 1919 at Elouges, Boussu, Hornu Belge and Belgium Hornu. It closes at Worcester on 24 June 1919. Elouges is where it spent longest, 78 days across four separate stays, it came back to Forceville five separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 32 days at Camiers. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Irish Farm, Line and Havringcourt Wood, Acheux Wood, Esbart Farm and Thiepval Wood. In 1916 it is also recorded at Havre, Camblain Chatelain, Bois De Bouvigny, France Fosse 10, Bois-La-Haie, Bois-La-Alleux, Hermin, La Thieuloye, France La Thieuloye and Forceville. In 1917 it is also recorded at Autheux, Vacquerie-Le-Boucq, Croisette, Floringhem, Bourecq, Bruay, St Aubin, Fosse 10, St Catherine N of Arras and Roclincourt. In 1918 it is also recorded at Metz-En-Couture, Line and Havringcourt Wood, Royaulcourt, Neuville-Equancourt Road, Neuville Bourjonval, Ruyaulcourt, Rocquigny, Martinpuich, Thiepval Wood and Engelbelmer. In 1919 it is also recorded at Hau-Dit-Petit-Dour, La Haut Dit, Boussu Sheeths, Hornu, Belgium, France Dunkirk, Dunkirk, Southampton, Boussu Belgium and Antwerp.

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