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Catalogue description Headquarters Branches and Services. General Staff
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| Reference: | WO 95/434/1 |
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| Description: | Headquarters Branches and Services. General Staff |
| Note: | The pages in this item are part of a larger record (piece). The record has been split into smaller parts during the digitisation process. |
| Date: | 1918 Aug |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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What information do the records contain?
Some diaries record little more than daily losses and map references, while others are much more descriptive, with daily reports on operations, intelligence summaries and other material. The digitised diaries cover activity in France and Belgium.
The diaries sometimes contain information about particular people but they are unit diaries, not personal diaries. Some contain details about gallantry awards and many include maps, plans and other documents as appendices.
What do the records look like?
With each download, you will typically see a unit diary that may cover a period of several years. This may be divided into several PDF files, which you can save to your computer. You can then scroll through the PDF files to locate the battalion and dates that you are interested in.
Many of the war diaries were scribbled hastily in pencil and use obscure abbreviations, whilst some are the second carbon copy of the original, so they may be difficult to read.
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