40 DIVISION 119 Infantry Brigade Headquarters : 1 July 1917 by WO95/2605

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No sleek enhancing, reviews or poorly judged reviews, simply the nice warfare day-to-day, written via the boys who fought this ‘War to finish all Wars’. complete color facsimile of every and each web page. So – what precisely is a conflict Diary and why may still i would like to learn one? 
Put easily, a battle Diary files what the actual unit was once doing every day. It includes a wealth of data that catalogues its numerous actions, if it is sour and dear struggling with, or extra mundane initiatives corresponding to education. it really is in most cases the one list to point what squaddies most likely did throughout the struggle. Make no mistake – there by no means used to be a close checklist stored of what every one soldier or officer did at any given time. That kind of minutia checklist preserving doesn't exist even this present day. What have been saved have been the diaries of the unit the guy belonged to. you could learn precisely what a unit did and, from that, infer what activities the boys assigned to that unit did. The struggle Diaries are one of the preferred records to be sought on the nationwide files. Chronological index to every quantity. mystery and exclusive intelligence. Operational orders. Battalion and corporate orders. Timing of assaults and assault pursuits. self-discipline. Meteorological climate experiences. Trench raids and evening assaults. apparatus diagrams and line 
drawings. position names and map co-ordinates. Battalion and corporate activities. officials’ activities. Localised trench maps and plans. Casualty figures of the lacking and wounded. Hand written-up and signed every day through the appointed officer, really on the sharp finish together with his males within the trenches. Uniquely wealthy and whole of army and historic information.

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