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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services Commander Royal Artillery, 41st Division, covering May 1916 to December 1916 across 314 pages. It names 18 places across 22 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 42 reports, narratives and plans, thirty Operation Orders, thirteen appendices and four maps. Among the papers are: Report on operations night July 2/3 Appendix. B; Report on Bombardment of "Work" U 28 a 4.6. Appendix "A"; War Diary report on Artillery Support for 124th Infantry Brigade Minor Enterprise night; Barrage & Bombardment night July 12/13th; Barrage from O.C' to O.15'; Barrage from O.O' to O. 25'; 41st Divisional Artillery operation order No. 3 Appendix a; 41st Divisional Artillery Group operation order No. 22; Amendment to 41st. Divisional Artillery Group operation order No. 23 Appendix D; Amendments to 41st Divisional Artillery Group operation order No. 25. Appendix F; 2nd Amendment to 41st Divisional Artillery Group operation order No. 36; Third Amendment to 41st. Divisional Artillery Group operation order No. 36. The diary opens at Aldershot on 1 May 1916. 1916 is spent at Steenwerck, Reninghelst, Pommiers, Merris and Bellevue Fm. It closes at Reninghelst on 31 December 1916. Steenwerck is where it spent longest, 73 days across three separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 35. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Pommiers Redoubt. In 1916 it is also recorded at Pont Remy, Argoeuves, Ribemont, Pommiers Redoubt, Bonnay, Villers Bocage, Doullens, Boubers Sur Canche, Monchy Cayeux and Lambres.
