Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 3 INDIAN (LAHORE) DIVISION 7 (Ferozepore) Infantry Brigade Connaught Rangers 1st Battalion, London Regiment 1/4 Battalion (City of London), 9 Battalion Bhopal Infantry and 57 Rifles, covering August 1914 to January 1916 across 605 pages. It names 204 places across 350 dated entries.

Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three casualty and personnel returns, one report or narrative, one appendix and one diagram. Among the papers are: Casualties 57th Rifles; Casualties officers; Casualties 26th Ad Ypres; Report on part Taken by 57 Rifles 77 Instruction on 20th 21st and 22nd December.

The diary opens at Ferozepore on 8 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Orleans, Marseteles, Karachi, S.S. ' Teesta' and Kiamari. 1915 is the most travelled year, 204 places against 92 in the next busiest, and is spent at Neuve Chapelle, La Beuvriere, Paradis, La Gorgue and Riez Bailleul. 1916 at El Khatri E, Shaluffa and Darb El Haj. It closes at Darb El Haj on 31 January 1916. La Beuvriere is where it spent longest, 108 days, it came back to La Gorgue eighteen separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 36 days at Riez Balliell.

Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Marais Farm, Orchard Crescent Trenches, Trenches, Trenches Just North Of Neuve Chapelle, Min House Farm, Trenches N. N.E. Neuve Chapelle, Chateau De Fosse and Trenches 3/4 Mile N.E. La. Brique.

In 1914 it is also recorded at Fyzabad, Lahore, Rhukanwala, Raewind, Changa-Manga, Okara, Montgomery, Samasata, Rohri and Kotri. In 1915 it is also recorded at Lapugnoy, Vielle Chapelle, St Pierre-Raimbert, Raimbert, Bacquerolles, La Perriere, Calonne, Bledecques, La Couture and Rue De L'Epinette.