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by Wo95/2433 (Other)
Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 34th Division, covering September 1916 to April 1917 across 735 pages. It names 5 places across 13 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 240 reports, narratives and plans, one Operation Order, two appendices, eleven maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Report on raid carried out by 21st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Scottish); Narrative of operations April 1917 34 Division; Narrative of operations by 34th Division Against the Southern End of Vimy Ridge; Report on operations carried out by 34th Division on the night 5/6th Nov. 1916 Appendix B; 34th Division. Intelligence Summary for Period 8 AM. 27th to 8 AM. 28th November 1916; 34th Division. Intelligence Summary; To Be Acknowledged by Wire scheme of operations Against the Southern End of the Vimy; To Be Acknowledged by Wire instructions No 6 Co-Operation with Aircraft (Contact; Supplementary Programme of Raids This Division Front; 11th Suffolks order No. 65; 11th Suffolks order No. 66; Special order. The diary opens at Croix Du Bac on 1 September 1916. 1916 is spent at Croix Du Bac. 1917 at Hermaville, Croix Du Bac, Fletre and Chelers. It closes at Hermaville on 25 April 1917. Croix Du Bac is where it spent longest, 148 days across five separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31.
