Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Divisional Trench Mortar Batteries, Divisional Troops, 42nd Division, covering April 1917 to January 1919 across 122 pages. It names 28 places across 46 dated entries.
The diary opens at Le Plesseil on 1 April 1917. 1917 is the most travelled year, 18 places against 13 in the next busiest, and is spent at Peronne, Vaux-En-Amiens, Vaux-En-Amienois, Le Plesseil Abbeville and Marquaix. 1918 is spent at Bus-Les Artois, Le Preol, La Haute Rue, Chatelineau and Gaudiempre. 1919 at Chatelineau. It closes at Chatelineau on 31 January 1919. Bus-Les Artois is where it spent longest, 46 days, it came back to Peronne four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Chatelineau.
In 1917 it is also recorded at Bois Olympe, Bul Olympe, Bertincourt, Bau Paunne, Bauiaunne, Proven, Wormhoudt, Teteghem and Fontes. In 1918 it is also recorded at Monehy au Bois, Miraumont, Grevillers, Riencourt, Beauvois, Pont-Sur-Sambre, Marpent and Lobbes.
