About 1.5 million diary pages are held by the National Archives and a fifth have been digitised so far.
The project is part of the government's World War One centenary programme.
A private war diary kept by one of the First Battalion's soldiers, Captain James Paterson, has also been digitised.
Captain Paterson died on 1 November, some six weeks after an entry said the scenes he witnessed were "beyond description".
"Trenches, bits of equipment, clothing (probably blood-stained), ammunition, tools, caps, etc, etc, everywhere. Poor fellows shot dead are lying in all directions. Some of ours," he said.
"Everywhere the same hard, grim, pitiless sign of battle and war. I have had a belly full of it."
Harry Patch, the last British survivor of the World War One trenches, died in 2009 aged 111.
The world's last known combat veteran of World War One, Claude Choules, died in Australia aged 110 in 2011.
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