2 INDIAN CAVALRY DIVISION Divisional Troops 2 Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, Divisional Ammunition Column, 9 Light Armoured Car Battery, 2 Field Squadron Royal Engineers, 1 (K.G.O) Sappers and Miners and Divisional Signal Squadron

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 2 INDIAN CAVALRY DIVISION Divisional Troops 2 Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, Divisional Ammunition Column, 9 Light Armoured Car Battery, 2 Field Squadron Royal Engineers, 1 (K.G.O) Sappers and Miners and Divisional Signal Squadron, covering August 1914 to December 1916 across 568 pages. It names 145 places across 291 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries five reports, narratives and plans, 33 Operation Orders, two appendices and twenty-five diagrams. Among the papers are: 2nd Ind. Cav. Div. Billeting instructions for night of August 3rd-4th; Copy of Divisional orders, C, B, 2nd Indian Cavalry Division Dated 5th January 1915; Copy of Corps order, Indian Cavalry Corps. Appendix No.6; Corps orders M.G Rinington,, Indian Cavalry Corps. Appendix No.6.The diary opens at Roorkee on 8 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Secunderabad, Mametz, Orleans, Ambala and La Motte. 1915 at Flechin, Ramburelles, Erny St Julien, Villeroy and Noeux Les Mines. 1916 at Bussy-Les-Daours, Villeroy, Embreville, Ramburelles and Fricourt. It closes at Dargnies on 31 December 1916. Ramburelles is where it spent longest, 206 days across eleven separate stays, it came back to Bussy-Les-Daours twenty-one separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 144 days at Secunderabad.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau 3/4 M E of Bethune, Fosse Chateau, Chateau Lapreyle Questede, Chateau Le Couvent, Vivier Mill and Bromfay Farm.In 1914 it is also recorded at Bombay, Voyage to Aden, Voyage to Suez, Port Said, Voyage to Marseilles, Suez, Vieille Chapelle, Marseilles, Aldershot and Auchel. In 1915 it is also recorded at Basse Rue, Stomer Clarques,…