Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 51 Mobile Veterinary Section, Divisional Troops, 40th Division, covering June 1916 to March 1919 across 127 pages. It names 60 places across 76 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one report or narrative, one appendix and one diagram. Among the papers are: Routine orders, 40th Division. The diary opens at Deepcut on 4 June 1916. 1916 is spent at Drouvin, Bray-Sur-Somme, Famechon, Bruay and Chipilly. 1917 at Moislains, Boiry-St-Rictrude, Bray, Warlincourt-Les-Pas and Monchiet. 1918 at Boiry-St. Martin, Croix, Lynde, Le. Tom and Steenwerck. 36A B,30b2.8. 1919 at 51st Mobile Veterinary Section. Broix. It closes at 51st Mobile Veterinary Section. Broix on 31 March 1919. Moislains is where it spent longest, 162 days across five separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 129. In 1916 it is also recorded at Southampton, Havre, Lillers, Amettes, Lagoulee, Gonnehem, Roellecourt, Frohen-Le-petit, Bernaville and Bouque-Maison. In 1917 it is also recorded at Chipilly, Suzanne, Curlu, Bapaume, Achiet-Le-Petit, Le. Transloy, Ruyalcourt and Basseuy. In 1918 it is also recorded at Bellacourt, Monchiet, Hendecourt, Adinfer, St Amand, Humbercourt, Herlin-Le-Vert, Lillers, Trou-Bayard and Rue-De-Bois.
