Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 114 Infantry Brigade, 38th Division, covering January 1916 to June 1916 across 740 pages. It names 7 places across 8 dated entries.

Alongside the daily entries the volume carries eleven casualty and personnel returns, 69 reports, narratives and plans, 65 Operation Orders, six appendices, eleven maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Casualties during December 1915; 114th, Infantry Brigade Casualty list for month of January; 114th Infantry Brigade Casualty Tactical Report. February 1916; Report on Raid-14th Welsh Regt; Instruction for Trench Mortar Battery for raid by 11th Battn. S.W.B; Raids Schemes for raid by 15th; Report on raid Undertaker by the 14th Battalion the the Welsh Regiment; Proposed Artillery Action in Support of raid by 13th Welsh Regiment on Canadian Dugouts; Lessons Drawn from the Various Minor operations carried out by the 2nd Army up to the 9th; Lessons to be learnt from attack on the Bluff March 1st/2nd, 1916; Notes on Mametz Wood Obtained by Patrol 2nd. Battn. Royal Irish Regiment, on night 3/4th; Relief of Machine Guns of 113th Brigade by 114th. Brigade on 7th. Feb. 1916.

The diary opens at Calonne Sur Lys on 1 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Laventie M 43 2.6, Cse Du Raux, Robecq, H.Q. Cockshy House and White House Vielle Chapelle. It closes at Laventie M 43 2.6 on 30 June 1916. Laventie M 43 2.6 is where it spent longest, 30 days, including a single unbroken stay of 30.