Interesting page at the NA

[brindlerp]

For those who have not seen it, with interesting documents.

Check out

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathway...y3/regiment.htm

and

http://www.a.jackson.btinternet.co.uk/trenches.htm

Regards

Richard

[jmoha]

Very interesting, just spent a week at the NA mainly reading the War diaries for Sherwood Foresters. I wish they had been typed as neatly as the example, deciphering the handwriting gave me a headache.

Whilst the handy guides suggest that the maps have been removed from the diaries I found quite a few small scale ones, usually relating to some "stunt" or other. Really helps to visualise the descriptions.

Also as a side note, despite the guides suggesting that you would be lucky if the Diary recorded the names of Other ranks killed or wounded I found two of them did to some degree, (the 11/ S. Foresters diary names them all).

[Greenwoodman]

Re 11 Sherwoods, the war diary does to start with, but it doesn't last long.

[John_Hartley]

I've recently been reading several diaries of Cheshire Service Battalions and casualties seem to be mentioned by name for about the first 4 - 6 weeks of active service. Presumably, after that, the numbers had grown so much, that it was no longer a "novelty".

Contrasts with the 1st Cheshire's diary which, after the first days, it gives up mentioning even the number of casualties for several months.

Makes research particularly difficult when you know deaths were an almost daily occurance as, on 13 March 1915, a day when Stopfordian Samuel Davenport was killed, the Diary records only "Quiet day".