 A series of delays, however, slowed the progress of the book - notably after the government decided that work should be restarted in 1951, to re-write all the names, this time including the abbreviations of individual regiments.The book was completed in 1957, and that Remembrance Day was placed in the Memorial Chamber alongside the first book.In 1959, humidity destroyed the bindings of the two World War books, requiring them to be re-bound.