Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 4 Guards Brigade, 2nd Division, covering August 1914 to August 1914 across 607 pages. It names 2 places across 2 dated entries.

Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, 232 reports, narratives and plans, twenty-one Operation Orders, three appendices and ten maps. Among the papers are: Casualties; No. 1 Base Standing order for Units Passing Through No. 1 Base; Special instructions for Officer Commanding Troops Transport; Brigade orders Earl of Cavan Cmdg 4th. Gds. Bde; Orders by Bde. Gen. Earl of Cavan Comdg 4th. Bde. Area; Bde. orders; Brigade orders by Lt. Col. G Fielding D.S.O. Cmdg 4th. Gds. Bde; After-Brigade orders Earl of Cavan 4th. (Guards) Brigade; After-Brigade order Earl of Cavan 4th. (Guards) Brigade; Operation orders Earl of Cavan 4th. Guards Brigade; 4th. Guards Brigade operation orders; Orders for defence 9 'B' Section.

The diary opens at London on 4 August 1914. 1914 is spent at London and Havre. It closes at Havre on 18 August 1914. London is where it spent longest, 10 days, including a single unbroken stay of 10.