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Great War Diaries: 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards War Diary 1914 - 1919

Martin Gillott

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Description:2nd Bn Grenadier Guards War Diary: France and Flanders 1914-1919. This is an accurate and faithful transcription of the original war diary held at The National Archives UK. It is the first in a series of Great War Diaries. The diary is fully searchable. The Battalion initially formed part of the 4th Guards Brigade, one of the three Brigades in the 2nd Division. It landed in Le Havre on 13th August 1914. The 2nd Division experienced some of the fiercest fighting of any British formation during the campaigns of 1914. Having disembarked with a War Establishment of 30 Officers and 977 on 13th August 1914, the 1914 Star medal roll indicates between this date and the 22nd November 1914 at least 1,800 Officers and Men served with the 2nd Battalion: the equivalent of nearly two Battalions’ worth of men passed through its ranks in only 101 days. These first cohorts would see some of the highest casualty rates of the whole war. The 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards would experience the highest casualty rates of all four Grenadier Guards battalions during the war. Of the original thousand Other Ranks, nearly 90% would become casualties. Roughly one in three would be killed – a ratio nearly three times higher than the average for the whole Army for the whole war. While recovered sick and wounded would be recycled through the Battalion, very few would served to the end of the war unscathed. More than half of the original Officers would be killed and of the 165 Officers who served in the Battalion during the war, a third would pay the ultimate sacrifice. Warfare was not continuous for the battalions as they were constantly rotated through the front line, the support and reserve lines and eventually billets for rest. Typically there were long periods out of the trenches interspersed with short periods of intense fighting. The battalion served for over 1,500 days in the Western Front and suffered fatalities on a quarter of these days. More telling is the concentration: 50% of their 1,424 fatalities occurred over just 22 separate dates – less than 2% of their time in France and Flanders. In August 1915 the thirteen Battalions of the Foot Guards were consolidated into a single formation: the Guards Division. The 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards formed part of the 1st Guards Brigade and would remain with it to the end of the War. The Guards Division’s baptism of fire as a new formation was the Battle of Loos in late September 1915. The Battle was notable as the first occasion where the British Army used gas, and the New Armies – or so-called ‘Kitchener’s Army’ were first used en masse on the Western Front. Casualties were again high and the Guards Division suffered heavily. The Grenadier Guards’ 1914-15 Star medal roll does not record which Battalion each man served in. The 4,768 names spread across the four battalions of the Regiment suggest that the equivalent of another battalions’ worth of men passed through the 2nd Battalion’s ranks in 1915. In short, they had turned over three times in less than 18 months. During the whole War at least 4,500 men served with the Battalion. This is a conservative estimate based on the British War Medal roll. The Grenadier Guards’ Battle Honours stand as grim testimony to their supreme efforts over the four years of hard fighting. The following diary records their experience day by day from 12th August 1914 to Armistice Day and beyond. The diary ends in January 1919. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Great War Diaries: 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards War Diary 1914 - 1919. To get started finding Great War Diaries: 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards War Diary 1914 - 1919, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards War Diary: France and Flanders 1914-1919. This is an accurate and faithful transcription of the original war diary held at The National Archives UK. It is the first in a series of Great War Diaries. The diary is fully searchable. The Battalion initially formed part of the 4th Guards Brigade, one of the three Brigades in the 2nd Division. It landed in Le Havre on 13th August 1914. The 2nd Division experienced some of the fiercest fighting of any British formation during the campaigns of 1914. Having disembarked with a War Establishment of 30 Officers and 977 on 13th August 1914, the 1914 Star medal roll indicates between this date and the 22nd November 1914 at least 1,800 Officers and Men served with the 2nd Battalion: the equivalent of nearly two Battalions’ worth of men passed through its ranks in only 101 days. These first cohorts would see some of the highest casualty rates of the whole war. The 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards would experience the highest casualty rates of all four Grenadier Guards battalions during the war. Of the original thousand Other Ranks, nearly 90% would become casualties. Roughly one in three would be killed – a ratio nearly three times higher than the average for the whole Army for the whole war. While recovered sick and wounded would be recycled through the Battalion, very few would served to the end of the war unscathed. More than half of the original Officers would be killed and of the 165 Officers who served in the Battalion during the war, a third would pay the ultimate sacrifice. Warfare was not continuous for the battalions as they were constantly rotated through the front line, the support and reserve lines and eventually billets for rest. Typically there were long periods out of the trenches interspersed with short periods of intense fighting. The battalion served for over 1,500 days in the Western Front and suffered fatalities on a quarter of these days. More telling is the concentration: 50% of their 1,424 fatalities occurred over just 22 separate dates – less than 2% of their time in France and Flanders. In August 1915 the thirteen Battalions of the Foot Guards were consolidated into a single formation: the Guards Division. The 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards formed part of the 1st Guards Brigade and would remain with it to the end of the War. The Guards Division’s baptism of fire as a new formation was the Battle of Loos in late September 1915. The Battle was notable as the first occasion where the British Army used gas, and the New Armies – or so-called ‘Kitchener’s Army’ were first used en masse on the Western Front. Casualties were again high and the Guards Division suffered heavily. The Grenadier Guards’ 1914-15 Star medal roll does not record which Battalion each man served in. The 4,768 names spread across the four battalions of the Regiment suggest that the equivalent of another battalions’ worth of men passed through the 2nd Battalion’s ranks in 1915. In short, they had turned over three times in less than 18 months. During the whole War at least 4,500 men served with the Battalion. This is a conservative estimate based on the British War Medal roll. The Grenadier Guards’ Battle Honours stand as grim testimony to their supreme efforts over the four years of hard fighting. The following diary records their experience day by day from 12th August 1914 to Armistice Day and beyond. The diary ends in January 1919. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Great War Diaries: 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards War Diary 1914 - 1919. To get started finding Great War Diaries: 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards War Diary 1914 - 1919, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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