Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 3rd Division, covering November 1914 to May 1915 across 964 pages. It names 10 places across 13 dated entries.

Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, twenty-four reports, narratives and plans, nine Operation Orders, two appendices, two maps and five diagrams. Among the papers are: 3rd Division. list of casualties November 1914; Narrative of operations of 3rd Division. 22nd-31st December, 1914; Narrative of operations of the 3rd Division. 1st to 6th January, 1915. (both inclusive).

The diary opens at Meterin on 1 November 1914. 1914 is spent at Mont Noir, East of Ypres, Meterin and Scherpenberg. 1915 at Mont Noir & Scherpenberg, Throughout the month of February and Mont Noir Post de Commandement Scherpenberg. It closes on 3 May 1915. Mont Noir is where it spent longest, 68 days across four separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Mont Noir & Scherpenberg.

In 1915 it is also recorded at Mont Noir.