A Second Diary of the Great War : From January, 1916 to June, 1917 (1917)

Author: Samuel Pepys
Published Date: 13 Jun 2009
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::348 pages
ISBN10: 1104700271
Publication City/Country: Whitefish MT, United States
Filename: a-second-diary-of-the-great-war-from-january-1916-to-june-1917-(1917).pdf
Dimension: 152x 229x 24mm::680g

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Thank you for your enquiy and I am sorry for the delay in replying. The Museum does not hold any enlistment papers for the First World War. However I have looked at the information held on Ancestry and have found the following: 1495/235290 Thamas Matthews served with the Herefordshire Regiment from the 23 June 1914 to 23 January 1919. Atlas of World War I. The Atlas of World War I has to be filled with maps. More information: Update the atlas. Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1 June 1916 Battle of the Somme, July to November 1916 German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, November 1916 to January 1917 Mesopotamian campaign. Battle of Basra (1914), December 1914 January to First World War. Originally called the 2nd London Division it was designated the 47th Division in 1915, during the Great War, and referred to as the "1/2nd London Division" after the raising of the second-line 60th (2/2nd London) Division.The division was sent to France in March 1915, one of the first Territorial divisions to enter the fighting, and served on the Western Front for the duration WAR DIARY. Home WAR DIARY About Subscribe Contact Home A view of the scene in front of the Australian lines at Johnston’s Jolly and along Second Ridge on the morning of 24 May 1915. [Sydney Mail, March 1917 February 1917 January 1917 November 1916 October 1916 August 1916 July 1916 June 1916 May 1916 April 1916 March 1916 January 1916 Raised in South Australia the 43rd formed part of the 11th Brigade, 3rd Division. Left Australia in June 1916 and after a period of training in England arrived on the Western Front in December 1916. During 1917 served in Flanders, notably at Messines and Ypres. Deployed to the Somme in 1918, participating in battles at Villers-Bretonneux and Hamel. The second was a purely defensive one, to retreat to a very strong defensive position and await the German Navy's unrestricted U-Boat campaign against the allies, designed to reduce their ability to wage war. 17 March, 1917 - Australians enter Bapaume after capturing Le Baque, Ligny-Thilloy. Awards The Battle of Arras was a major British offensive during the First World War. From 9 th April to 16 th May 1917, troops from the four corners of the British Empire attacked trenches held the army of Imperial Germany to the east of the French city of Arras. The ground and date chosen for the battle was dictated a desire to cooperate with the French, whose forthcoming offensive, planned The 13th Battalion DLI was again in action in September, during the Third Battle of Ypres, in the fighting on the Menin Road. Then, in October 1917, 13 DLI, as part of a combined French and British force, was sent to northern Italy, where Austrian and German forces had defeated the Italian Army at Caporetto and was threatening Venice. 13th (Service) Battalion Middlesex Regt. - War diary 1 Dec 1915 HELLEBROUCQ There was a Brigade Route march about 9 ½ miles via EPERLECQUES-MOULLE-SERQUES-WATTEN-GANSPETTE. The Brigadier General Commanding expressed his satisfaction at the marked improvement and march discipline on the march. 2 Dec 1915 A draft of 17 Other Ranks joined the Battalion, 11 from… Important events of 1917 during the fourth and penultimate year of the First World War, including the surprise tank attack the British (pictured above) at the Battle of Cambrai. 19 Jan The British intercept and decode a telegram from the German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to Mexico urging In March and April 1918, the battalion helped to stop the German Spring offensive. At Hamel in June, Lance Corporal Tom Axford was awarded the battalion’s second Victoria Cross. The battalion participated in the great allied offensive of 1918, fighting near Amiens on 8 August 1918. Children of the Great War project funded the Heritage Lottery Fund. January 1917. 5 th December in hospital in Brighton. I was wounded in the neck at Ypres previous year 1916. He’s keeping the diary in 1917 but he’s remembering from 1916. 2 nd June 1917 but he’s put in the entry of 2 June 1916. The Royal Field Artillery was a branch of the Royal Artillery during World War War 1. There were two other branches of the Artillery during The Great War, The Royal Horse Artillery, the so-called elite branch of the Artillery; and the Royal Garrison Artillery, which mainly used … Bold type indicates words or phrases written in longhand, not shorthand in the original diaries. * indicates words which are illegible in the original diaries. † indicates words or phrases the transcription from shorthand of which is uncertain, or where longhand is unclear. Strikethrough and underscore appear exactly as used in the original diaries. < > indicates (very rare) editorial 4 January 1917: Amalgamated with the 1/1st Royal North Devon Yeomanry at Moascar, Egypt to form the 16th (Royal 1st Devon and Royal North Devon Yeomanry) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment in the 74th (Yeomanry) Division. 1917-18: Took part in the invasion of Palestine. It fought in the 2nd and 3rd Battles of Gaza (including the capture of Beersheba). Henry Blogg and the Fernebo On the stormy winter morning of 9 January 1917, a distress signal brought out the lifeboatmen of Cromer in their lifeboat Louisa Heartwell, which launched into heavy seas to reach the Greek steamer Pyrin, drifting two miles out at … War-time diaries of Edward Packe - preface to World War I the outbreak of the Great War both his parents were dead and he was preparing for his second year studying medicine at Exeter College, Oxford University, intending to become See diary 11 December 1916, 10 January 1917 and 31 January 1917; Larking with Claudia: Please scroll down for content Canadian Hospital ship Llandovery Castle sunk German U-Boat. Life boats were pursued and sunk. 234 were killed, including 14 nursing sisters. 24 survived. This attack proved a rallying cry for the Canadian troops for the rest of the war. 27 June, 1918 British occupy El Arish, Sinai Peninsula. British aerial bombardment of Bargela, new Turkish base, 19 miles west of Kut. Russian withdrawal in Dobrudja. New Note to Greece; prohibition of reservists' meetings, control of telegraphs, posts, and railways, release of imprisoned Venizelists and inquiry into Athens disturbances demanded. In June 1921 a million children a day were fed in the 2,271 food kitchens run the Quakers in 1,640 German communities. 16 The Nazis were to learn the lessons of the government’s inadequacies in maintaining adequate food supplies on the home front during the First World War and tried to ensure that racially valuable Germans had sufficient to eat during the Second World War. On 13 December 1916, Maude began a second advance up both banks of the Tigris with an Anglo-Indian force of 150,000 men. At first, he made slow progress. An attack on the Khadairi Bend, a fortified river loop, which started in early January 1917, was held up. But … 3rd Grenadier Guards - War Diary 1 Jun 1916 Marched into VOLKERINGHOVE. The Brigade marched past the Army Commander, Corps Commander & Divisional Commander in ESQUELBECQ. Billets were fair but scattered.The Brigade then dug a complete representation to scale of German trenches, ?founded? On W side road running through KOLN FARM* in from C.14.C.8.4… 10th Battalion A.I.F. Official War diary. 25/04/1915 ANZAC. During the afternoon of Saturday 24th April B & C Coys under Major Oldham and Capt Jacob respectively together with Battn Hd Quarter Staff and all Battn Scouts under Lt TALBOT SMITH transferred from the Transport "IONIAN" to H.M.S. "PRINCE OF WALES" and Coys under Major BEEVOR and Capt HERBERT respectively together to Torpedo

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