Working parties
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In this diary we find are working parties mentioned in other diaries. More than 250 O.R.'s working with the Field Company.
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Working parties ww1
Even when supposedly at ‘rest’ soldiers could find themselves engaged in exhausting work. There was always a shortage of labour at the front, with fighting men having to provide working parties to make good the lack. Officers were exempt from tiring manual labour, but faced different claims upon their time out of the line – chiefly never-ending paperwork. In addition to dealing with general military bureaucracy, they were expected to master an ever-growing body of tactical and technical instructions, and to attend residential training courses. - See more at: https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/the-daily-life-of-soldiers#sthash.Vikv3AUU.dpuf
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cyngast
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A field company was not large enough to provide all the labor needed for some of the big, labor-intensive projects that came under the engineers' command. They often used working parties made up of infantry troops from the support or reserve lines.
Don't tag these as working parties here. Tagging a working party means that the diary's unit provided the men, and here the men are coming to this unit.
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erik.schaubroeckscarlet.be
in response to cyngast's comment.
I don't tag these as working parties, but I do tag the work they do.
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cyngast
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That's fine as the work is under the command and supervision of the field company.
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David_Underdown
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As time went on it became more likely that the working parties were drawn from the Labour Corps (except perhaps very close to the front lines).
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