34 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Commander Royal Artillery: 1 April 1917 - 28 December 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2441)

By British War Office

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services Commander Royal Artillery, 34th Division, covering April 1917 to December 1917 across 461 pages. It names 13 places across 19 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 49 reports, narratives and plans, 58 Operation Orders, two appendices, eight maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: 34th. Divisional Artillery instructions No. 4.; Amendment No. 4 to 34th. Divisional Artillery instructions numbered 1 to 4 (3 of them); Special order., 34th Division; Table "A". 18-Pounder Barrage Table; March Table attached to 34th. Divisional Artillery operation order No. 99; March Table to accompany 34th. Div. Arty. operation order No. 100. Moves of 34th; Table "A" attached to 34th. Divisional Artillery operation order No. 105; Operations for the Capture of Cologne Farm Hill and Farm Trench. 34th. Divisional; 34th. Div. Arty. No. O/209/8. operation for the Capture of Cologne Farm Hill and Farm; 34th. Div. Arty. No. O/209/13. operation for the Capture of Cologne Farm Hill and Farm; Amendment No 1 attached to 34th. D.A. instructions No. 3 d/17-8-17; Table "B" 4.5 Howitzer Standing Barrage. attached to 34th Divisional Artillery operation. The diary opens at Hermaville on 1 April 1917. 1917 is spent at Bernaville, Boileux Au-Mont, Proven and Hermaville. It closes at Boisleux Au Mont on 28 December 1917. Bernaville is where it spent longest, 24 days, including a single unbroken stay of 22 and it came back to Nobescourt Farm five separate times. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Nobescourt Farm. In 1917 it is also recorded at E Of Maroeil, Ivergny, Courcelles Les Comte, Nobescourt Farm, St Sixtie and Boileux-Au-Mont 51b SW.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474516823
• ISBN13: 9781474516822
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 2.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 11.7"