A lockable volume gold-stamped ‘Private Diary’ containing at the front, a record of his service 1897-1901 with additional entries written in at various times between 1902 and 1914, with a retrospect, 1931, of events from 1872 to 1882 and further additions, 1937, 1944; with snapshots, press-cuttings and other items pasted in throughout. At the back, inverted, are notes on officers ca.1904-ca.1908, and pasted in a letter, 1945, of Major-General Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith.