Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie / (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915

The volume collects wartime letters written by a lieutenant-colonel commanding a rifle battalion during the opening months of the First World War, recording daily life in trenches, patrols and raids, shortages, weather, casualties, and small comforts. Interleaved are a concise sketch of his career, editorial notes and a dedication to his family, providing context to his practical observations, leadership concerns and personal reflections on duty, morale and comradeship. The tone alternates between blunt reportage of operations and quiet moments of domestic longing, offering an immediate soldier's-eye account of front-line experience in winter campaigning.