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by Wo95/1671 (Other)
Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 8th Division, covering September 1914 to March 1915 across 629 pages. It names 8 places across 13 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 36 reports, narratives and plans, thirty-one Operation Orders, eight appendices, eighteen maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: 23rd Infantry Brigade narrative of Operations. March 10-14th 1915; Report on operations 8th Division Artillery 10th-14th March 1915; Intelligence Summary; Appendix 8 special order of the Day by His Majestry the King; Army operation order No 8 Bart 4th Corps; Instructions for the 16th December 1914; Amendments to Div Standing orders Information About the enemy; Instructions 8th Divisional Artillery for Action night 18th-19th December 1914; Orders to Artillery Observation 1st Worcestershire Regt; Instructions Given 1/Worc Regt. to his Party; 8 Div Action in Case of attack; 8th Division Action in Case of attack. The diary opens at Southampton on 19 September 1914. 1914 is spent at Estaires, Merville, Havre, Southampton and Baddesley Common. 1915 at Estaires and Sailly. It closes at Sailly on 31 March 1915. Estaires is where it spent longest, 133 days across five separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31. In 1914 it is also recorded at Hursley Park.
