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Letters and memoranda concerning accusations against Cpl Southern of drunkenness and other offences, brought by members of the Cheshire Regiment.

Correspondence relating to Cpl Williams's application for a commission, which was unsuccessful.

Correspondence with William Edwardes concerning the Welsh Horse and Franklyn's memoir, together with notes by Edwardes on the memoir.

Lord Kensington's personal war diaries, concentrating on his military activities - notably recruitment, training, campaigns, administration, horses, supplies, and the weather - but also including personal notes concerning his health, family, friends and domestic and social activities. There are very few entries before the mobilisation of European armies at the end of July 1914, but the diaries are full thereafter.

Notes, diagrams, messages, orders, reports, memoranda, letters and accounts, including two field message books, relating to matters including specific military operations, trench warfare tactics and fortifications in general, personnel, equipment, horses, transport, pay, supplies and other aspects of military life. Most if not all of the entries appear to have been written on active service at Gallipoli and in Egypt and Palestine.

Correspondence and accounts relating to financial transactions both within the Army and with private businesses, including the procurement of equipment and the administration of a variety of army funds. Financial business was often complicated and prolonged by the Army's organisation, with its separate officers' accounts, private accounts, mess accounts, squadron accounts, regimental accounts, and accounts for numerous other units and functions (medical, kitchen, saddlery, weaponry, and so on), and also by the need for communication between the regiment, supply depots, and the War Office.

Correspondence and accounts relating to the local purchase and irregular sale of hay, oats and corn, particularly with regard to the Penrice estate at Margam Park.

Correspondence relating to the allocation of troops and resources to 2/1 and 3/1 Welsh Horse, to act as a Reserve and as a training regiment respectively. The folder is indexed.

Hand-drawn diagrams (including copies) of trenches, mines and other military positions around Hill 60 at Gallipoli, with a letter relating to planned earthworks; printed trench diagrams of ANZAC Cove; printed War Office maps of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, with annotations; and a printed handkerchief map of Turkey.

Photographs of Gallipoli, Gaza and Sollum [Sallum], some endorsed with notes.

Letters outlining the correct procedure for making reports on officers for distinction or inefficiency, and stressing the importance of observing it. These instructions, originating from the Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Expeditonary Force, were issued to his immediate subordinates and then circulated at lower levels.

Material collected and written by Julian Franklyn during the course of his research, including a copy of his memoir about the Welsh Horse (Lancers). Much of the material he collected was due to the help of William Edwardes, Lord Kensington's son and successor, who initiated the collection of documents for the project.

Letter from Lce Sgt Hooper requesting permission to revert to the rank of private.

Correspondence and a receipt relating to ammunition left behind by the Leicestershire Yeomanry and recovered by the Welsh Horse from the Staffordshire Yeomanry.

Personal letters to Lord Kensington and his family relating to his commission and promotions, and also a motto for the Welsh Horse (Lancers), together with his advance pay book, a menu for a Royal Welch Fusiliers Christmas dinner in Egypt, blank regimental Christmas cards produced for the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and a printed order of service to mark the first Sunday after the cessation of hostilities.