World War I.

Issues 1-50, 6 July to 28 August 1916, "Weekly Dump", issues 1-2, 3 and 8 September 1916, "The Unintelligent Report or The Daily Dump", Volume 2, issues 51-100, 23 April to 20 June 1917, with notes and annotations by Brigadier General John Ponsonby; together with two further sets of issues 1-50 and the Weekly Dump 1-2 and a further set of issues 51-100 also including issue Volume 3, issue 101 only, 25 June 1917; four volumes, each bound in matching half blue morocco gilt with marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; [with:] typed letter signed by Hilaire Belloc, to the Editors of the "Daily Dump", sending a poem, one page, 20 June 1917; [with:] The Morning Rire: the Trench Magazine of the Second Irish Guards, March 1916, eight pages, typescript [also with:] three carbon copy typescript official reports on military operations, including one duplicate, 1917-18; three printed "Special Order of the Day" notices issued by Field Marshal Haig, 19 September-28 October 1918; 6 printed maps of the Western Front, most showing trench systems including the Balemberg System and the area north of Merville, most stamped "GOC" and two marked "Secret"

The Daily Dump was written by officers at the Headquarters of the Second Guards Brigade, comprising Battalions from the Grenadiers, Coldstream, Scots, and Irish Guards. Published "from YPRES to the SOMME ... its Offices have varied from chateau to dug-out, but its tone has never changed". Its combination of news, jokes, and anecdotes provides a vivid impression of life on the Western Front.