Typescript diary kept by Lt Col Ponsonby, 1914-1915. Covers Ponsonby's time commanding the 1st Bn Coldstream Guards on the Western Front, describing the journey from Southampton; conditions at the front; movements of the brigade. Additional material within the diary includes: roll of officers; portrait photographs of fellow officers (who were killed in action); letter from Geoffrey Cambel; sketch of Lieut-Gen Sir F Ivor Maxse, press cuttings.
From the Coldstream Guards Archive. 
Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).