Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 8th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 49 Infantry Brigade, 16th Division, covering February 1916 to August 1917 across 413 pages. It names 64 places across 106 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 52 reports, narratives and plans, thirty-one Operation Orders, six appendices, fourteen maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Scheme for raid by 2nd. Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment; Report of Patrol; Report of Officer Patrol; Patrol report attached from Perch; Appendix F. Contact Patrols; Report on Gap H19 C.9.9; Report on Wire At H.19.C.99; H.Q Div Infantry Brigade raid scheme Left Sub Section Left Section; Issued for Instructional Purposes Only; Preliminary Instruction No. 1 7/8th; 49th Infantry Brigade instructions for the Offensive; 49th Infantry Brigade Administrative instructions for the Offensive. The diary opens at Bordon on 3 February 1916. 1916 is the most travelled year, 50 places against 38 in the next busiest, and is spent at Locre, Noeux-Les-Mines, Condette, Bordon and Mazingarbe. 1917 is spent at Hazebrouck, Doncaster Huts, Winnizeele, Renmore Camp Brulooze and Mentque. It closes at Achiet-Le-Petit on 23 August 1917. Locre is where it spent longest, 66 days across sixteen separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 27 days at Noeux-Les-Mines. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Butterfly Farm, Billon Farm, Bernafay Wood and Ridge Wood. In 1916 it is also recorded at Southampton, Havre, Lillers, Ligny-Lez Aire, Lieres, Bellerive, Philosophe, Raimbert, Drouvin and Hesdingeuil. In 1917 it is also recorded at Locre, Wakefield Huts, Derry Huts & Kemmel Chateau, Kemmel Shelters, Butterfly Farm, Clare Camp, Arques, Weston Camp Scherpenburg, Ridge Wood and Curragh Camp. Scherpenburg.
