War Diaries - Facsimile Reprints of Official War Office Wo95 Documents- 5 CAVALRY DIVISION Divisional Troops 5 Signal Squadron

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 5 Signal Squadron, Divisional Troops, 5th Cavalry Division, covering January 1917 to March 1918 across 94 pages. It names 26 places across 47 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one report or narrative, five Operation Orders and 42 diagrams. Among the papers are: Operation orders Cmdg. 5th Signal Sqdn.The diary opens at Dargnies on 1 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Dargnies, Heuchin, Nobescourt Farm, Guizancourt and Fressin. 1918 at Pont-De-Metz, Monchy-Lagache, Bouvincourt and Marseilles. It closes at Marseilles on 30 March 1918. Dargnies is where it spent longest, 76 days across four separate stays, it came back to Bouvincourt five separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 32 days at Pont-De-Metz.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Nobescourt Farm.In 1917 it is also recorded at Senarpont, Pont-De-Metz, Cerisy, Peronne, Templeux, Villers-Bretonneux, Bouvincourt, Nobescourt Fm, Treux and St Pol.