5 CAVALRY DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff: 2 January 1917 - 21 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1162/1)

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, 5th Cavalry Division, covering January 1917 to February 1918 across 327 pages. It names 31 places across 39 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 62 reports, narratives and plans, 56 Operation Orders and two maps. Among the papers are: Account of a raid by Two Squadrons Canadian Cavalry Bde. on July 8th/9th 1917. Appx 123; Narrative of the operations of the 5th. Cavalry Division Between March 24th. and March; Narrative of the operation of the 5th. Cavalry Division Between March 24th. and March; 5th Cavalry Division 6th December 1917. Intelligence Summary-30th Nov. to 2nd Dec; 5th Cavalry Division March Table-22.3.17 (Issued with operation order No.21); No G.A./589 Headquarters 5th Cavalry Division 22nd March, 1917 issued at Normal operation; These instructions are preliminary and are liable to alteration; Distribution As for operation order No. 29; No G. 530. 5th. Cavalry Division instructions for Defence. Appx 112; Suggested Arrangements for Relief; Concentration Orders.-July 1917. Appx 127; Operation orders Appx 139. The diary opens at Dargnies on 2 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Dargnies, Heuchin, Nobescourt Farm and Guizancourt. 1918 at Bouvincourt, Monchy Lagache and Pont De Metz. It closes at Pont De Metz on 21 February 1918. Dargnies is where it spent longest, 56 days, it came back to Bouvincourt five separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 39 days at Nobescourt Farm. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Nobescourt Farm. In 1917 it is also recorded at Incheville Beauchamps Cust. Marest Pont Marais, Darg, Gamaches, Beauchamps, Lincheux, Guienemicourt, Thennes & Berteaucourt, Cerisy, Peronne and Boucly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474501168
• ISBN13: 9781474501163
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.7"