It never ceases to surprise me how many "new" memoirs, diaries and the like are still coming to light and being published. This is a delight: papers discovered in two tin boxes during a house move and unlikely to have been opened since 1934, containing documents going back as far as 1708. (Why do I never find anything like this?) Among the papers, an extensive diary, letters and photographs from the period of the war, belonging to the Hon. Edward Cadogan.

Born in 1880, the son of the 5th Earl of Cadogan, he was the Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons in 1914 and among Britain's elite.

He was an officer with the Suffolk Yeomanry and saw service with the regiment at Gallipoli and in Palestine. The diary is detailed and fascinating, very well edited by the authors, neither of whom I have heard of before - but am forced to wonder whether Camilla Cecil is of the well-known family of that name.

I was particularly impressed by the photographs - many individuals named - none of which, I believe, have been published elsewhere. There are many reproductions too of documents, from mobilisation orders to signals and orders and mentions in despatches.

Obviously appealing to the student of Gallipoli, Palestine or the Yeomanry but a valuable addition to any collection.

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