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by Wo95/1581 (Other)
Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 6th Division, covering September 1914 to September 1914 across 448 pages. It names 5 places across 6 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, thirteen reports, narratives and plans, 33 Operation Orders, two appendices, seven maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: 6th Corps H.Q. G.X. 190 mentioned in diary of 1st August As Being attached Is Missing; 2nd Sherwood Foresters report on operations At Hooge 9th August 1915; 18th Infantry Brigade report on operations At Hooge 9th August, 1915; Report on operations Near Hooge on 9th August, 1915 2nd Durham Light Infantry; 16th Infantry Brigade report on the operations At Hooge 9th August, 1915; 1st East Yorkshire Regiment report on operation At Hooge 9th August, 1915; Operation orders in Connection with operations At Hooge on 9th August; Divisional operation orders Nos. 32,33,34,35 & 36; Extract from 16th Infantry Brigade operations orders of 6th August 1915; Divisional operation orders Nos. 38, 39 40 41 42 & 43. The diary opens at Villemontoire on 16 September 1914. 1914 is spent at Bazoches, Villeblain, Villemontoire and State Of 6th Division At Midday. It closes at Bazoches Midday on 30 September 1914. Bazoches is where it spent longest, 12 days, including a single unbroken stay of 10.
