41 DIVISION Divisional Troops Machine Gun Corps 41 Battalion: 1 March 1918 - 31 October 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2627/4)

By British War Office

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 41 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, Divisional Troops, 41st Division, covering August 1918 to October 1919 across 256 pages. It names 31 places across 47 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries fifteen reports, narratives and plans, 57 Operation Orders, one appendix and two maps. Among the papers are: Administrative Orders: . 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Sunday, 2nd June, 1918; Administrative instructions part II.. 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Sunday, 2nd; Administrative Order.. 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Tuesday, 25th June, 1918; Administrative Instruction No. 1. issued in Connection with operation order No. 31; O.C. "A" Company. "B" Company. "C" Company. Reference operation order No., 47 of This; March Table to Accompany Instruction No. 1; 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps Administrative instructions issued in Connection; Amendment No. 1 to 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps Administrative Instruction issued; Amendment No. 1 to 41st Battn. Machine Gun Corps operation order No. 64; 1st Amendment to 41st Battn. Machine Gun Corps order No. 66. The diary opens at Kemmel on 8 August 1918. 1918 is the most travelled year, 26 places against 8 in the next busiest, and is spent at Dickebusch, Kemmel, Santbergen, Coutrai and Ghelevelt. 1919 is spent at Cologne, Rath Camp, Heumar and Couthuin. It closes at Cologne Rhiel on 31 October 1919. Cologne is where it spent longest, 134 days across nine separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 92 days at Rath Camp. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Spoil Bank and Lock 7 & Spoil Bank. In 1918 it is also recorded at Tilques, Tirques, Lock 7 & Spoil Bank, Spoil Bank, Dadizeele, Courtrai, Sweveghem, Deerlyck, Tierghem and Schoorisse. In 1919 it is also recorded at En Route Cologne.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474520146
• ISBN13: 9781474520140
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.7"