Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 25 Infantry Brigade, 8th Division, covering May 1915 to September 1915 across 751 pages. It names 5 places across 9 dated entries.
Alongside the daily entries the volume carries eight casualty and personnel returns, 92 reports, narratives and plans, 49 Operation Orders, six appendices, twenty-five maps and twenty-one diagrams. Among the papers are: Casualties during operations; Casualties; Revised instructions Regarding the Clearing of Battlefields and Burial of Dead; 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade. report on operations at Neuve Chapelle 10th-14th March, 1915; 2nd Battalion Lincoln Regiment. report on operations from 19th-14th. Battle of Neuve; Appendices B to N referred to in Brigade report on operations Also further operation; 25th Infantry Brigade report on operations 9/10th May. 1915; Intelligence reports on Area Round Neuve Chapelle; Intelligence. G numbered 345 to 457 (3 of them); Report of Patrol Appendix a; Action in Cause of attack; 25th Inf Brigade Action in case of attack.
The diary opens at Laventie on 1 May 1915. 1915 is spent at Fleurbaix, Laventie, Sailly, Bac St Maur and Lagorgue. It closes at Sailly on 1 September 1915. Fleurbaix is where it spent longest, 51 days across three separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31.
