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Account of the part played in the Battle of Le Cateau by D Company of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 13 Bde, 2 Corps. 7pp

Aerial photographs of Falfemont Farm, [France] showing the effect of bombardment over a long period.

Christmas cards from various friends and units on the Western Front.

Copy of 6 Italian Army order publishing the award of the Croce di Guerra to Gathorne-Hardy, with a covering note from Maj the Hon Piers Walter Legh, General Headquarters, Italy. 2pp.

Correspondence between Gathorne-Hardy, his wife Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy, and his daughter Elizabeth Gathorne-Hardy, throughout World War One, mainly concerning domestic matters, but with some descriptions of events on the Western Front, and his move to Italy in 1917.

Menus and invitations to dinners held by British and Italian units.

Papers relating to service on the Western Front, World War One, 1914-1919 including correspondence referring to campaigns on the Western and Italian Fronts and account of the battle of Le Cateau, Aug 1914; service as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, 1931-1933 including press cuttings; service as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Aldershot Command, 1933-1937 and ADC General to the King, 1934-1937, including press cuttings; copy photographs, 1916-1937,including Trench Mortar School at General HQ and pontoon bridge over River Piave at Salettuol, Italy; family papers of Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy and Elizabeth Gathorne-Hardy, 1914-1937.

Letter to Gathorne-Hardy from HM Queen Mary, thanking him for news of Edward Albert Christian George Patrick David, Prince of Wales, who had recently been serving on the staff of Gen Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien on the Western Front. 1p.

Letter to Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy from 'Hugh', informing her that his division will sail from Southampton in a few days. 4pp.

Letter to Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy from her nephew, [Capt] Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, Lord Stanley, serving with 1 Bn Grenadier Guards on the Western Front. 2pp.

Letters from Elizabeth Gathorne-Hardy to her mother, one in French.

List of the suite of His Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi, with their orders. 2pp.

Menu and programme of events for a dinner held by Spen Valley Incorporated Chamber of Commerce, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire.

Mobilisation appointment, giving Gathorne-Hardy the war-time post of General Staff Officer, Grade 2 (Intelligence), 2 Army, BEF (British Expeditionary Force). 1p.

Entrance ticket and Order of Service for a service at York Minster, York, to celebrate Military Sunday.

Order of Service for a service held at St Paul's Cathedral, London, for the Silver Jubilee of HM King George V. Two copies, one containing an entrance ticket for Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy.

Order of Service for a service in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on the first anniversary of the declaration of World War One.

Order of Service for a service held at the Cathedral Church of St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, on Armistice Sunday. Includes a newspaper cutting of Gathorne-Hardy and the Mayor of Newcastle at the War Memorial, after the service.

Order of Service for the unveiling of a memorial to Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby and Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy's father, in the Cathedral Church of Christ, Liverpool, Lancashire.

Special Order of the Day for Aldershot Command, on the occasion of Gathorne-Hardy's retirement from the army. Two copies.