35 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff: 29 January 1916 - 31 May 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2468)

By British War Office

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 35th Division, covering January 1916 to May 1917 across 896 pages. It names 44 places across 60 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, 169 reports, narratives and plans, 69 Operation Orders, three appendices, twenty-two maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Officers. killed; Report on raid carried out by the 19th. Durham L.I. on the night of 25/26th. Nov. 1916; Narrative of operations of 35th Division, April 14th-16th 1917; First report of operations on Hight 02 30th K Y, 1916; Report on operations in Connection with Holding the line Trones Wood Waterlot Farm; Lessons Learnt; First report of Operations. 20-7-16; Daily Intelligence Summary No 1; 35th Division Intelligence Summary numbered 3 to 20 (9 of them); Daily Intelligence Summaries Nos. 57 to 87 Forwarded Herewith; 35th. Division Daily Intelligence Summary No. 3; 59th Div. Intelligence Summary No. 4. The diary opens at Cholderton on 29 January 1916. 1916 is the most travelled year, 37 places against 10 in the next busiest, and is spent at Lestrem, Sailly Sur La Lys, Duisans, Busnes and Diary 105th. Brigade. 1917 is spent at Beauvois, Roellecourt, Caix, Vignacourt and Rosieres. It closes at Gurlu Wood on 31 May 1917. Lestrem is where it spent longest, 99 days across six separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Billon Farm, Gurlu Wood and Copse Valley. In 1916 it is also recorded at Tidworth Station L. & S.W.R, Southampton Docks, Southampton Water, Southampton Havre, Havre, Buchy, Abbeville, St. Omer, Le Nieppe and Lambres. In 1917 it is also recorded at Caix & Rosieres, Nesle, Buny and Peronne.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474525261
• ISBN13: 9781474525268
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 912 Pages
• Weight: 4.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.3" x 11.7"