Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 33rd Division, covering July 1915 to December 1916 across 820 pages. It names 30 places across 49 dated entries.

Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, 58 reports, narratives and plans, 52 Operation Orders, 35 appendices, twenty-nine maps and four diagrams. Among the papers are: Appendix casualties 15th July to 22nd July 1916; Report on raid carried out by 9th H.L.I. (Glasgow Highlanders) on night of 27th/28th June; Report on raid on 22/3/16; War Diary Or Intelligence Summary "G" 33rd Division; 33rd Division Summary of Intelligence from 11.20 P.m 9th to 8.30 Am 10th Dec 1916; 33rd Division Summary of Intelligence 12th Dec 1916; Object of Patrol; "D" Patrol; March Table issued with operation order No 7 of 26th Nov 1915; App "Q" report on Hostile Wine Activity 2/1/16; Appendix AW report on operation 13th/21st July; App B.C narrative of attack on High Wood by 19th Inf Brigade.

The diary opens at Clipstone Camp Mansfield Notts on 1 July 1915. 1915 is spent at Bulford Camp, Busnes, Clipstone Camp and Bethune. 1916 is the most travelled year, 26 places against 10 in the next busiest, and is spent at Bethune, N.E. Of Meaulte, Hallencourt, Doullens and P.C. Bonnet. It closes at Chateau Long on 31 December 1916. Bethune is where it spent longest, 202 days across nine separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 92 days at Bulford Camp.

Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau Long.

In 1915 it is also recorded at Bulford, Boulogne and Morbecque. In 1916 it is also recorded at Belloy Sur Somme, Corbie, Treux Meaulte, Meaulte, Fricourt, Ribemont, Buire, Villers Bocage, Bernaville and Frohen Le Grand.