Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 17 Infantry Brigade, 24th Division, covering April 1917 to September 1917 across 798 pages. It names 33 places across 51 dated entries.
Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, 65 reports, narratives and plans, 100 Operation Orders, twelve appendices, fifteen maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: Casualties; Proposed plan of attack After Capture of Green Line; Report on operations 3rd September to midday 4th September; Report on operations July 23rd to August 11th 1917; Patrols; 17th Infantry Brigade Intelligence Summary No 8; Raiding Party; 17th Infy. Bde operation order No 69; 17th Infantry Brigade operation order No. 100; Addendum to 17th. Infantry Brigade operation order No 105; War Diary the operation order in 17th. Infantry Brigade operation order No: 138 Are; March Table issued with 17th Infantry Brigade operation order No. 169.
The diary opens at Bully Grenay on 1 April 1917. 1917 is spent at Micmac Camp, Colembert, Hill 60, Brandhoek and Bully Grenay. It closes at Bernes on 30 September 1917. Micmac Camp is where it spent longest, 23 days across six separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 17 days at Colembert.
Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Larch Wood and Larch Wood Tunnels.
In 1917 it is also recorded at Angres, Lievin, St Hilaire, Erny St Julien, Bethune, Vendin Les Bethune, St Venant, Hazebrouck, Steen Voorde and Poperinghe.
