Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 170 Infantry Brigade, 57th Division, covering October 1917 to November 1919 across 972 pages. It names 52 places across 81 dated entries.

Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one list of honours and awards, four casualty and personnel returns, 304 reports, narratives and plans, 93 Operation Orders, nine defence schemes, 32 appendices, twenty-nine maps and sixteen diagrams. Among the papers are: Honours and awards King's Birthday honours Despatch 1918; Appendix I Strength and casualties of Units; Appendix I Medical Arrangements and casualties Training scheme No.3; 170th Infantry Brigade War Diary May 1918 & Summary of casualties; Narrative of operations for 28th, 29th and 30th August 1918; Narrative of operations; Report on operations Summary of Contents; Appendix Strength of Patrol order; 170th Inf. Bde Summary of Intelligence from 6 a.m. 3/1/18 to 6 a.m. 4/1/18; Report on Patrol; 170th Infantry Brigade Summary of Intelligence from 6 a.m. 31/1/18 to 6 a.m. 1/2/1918; Arrangements for M.G. Fire and for Patrolling Gaps.

The diary opens at Fontaine Les Hermans on 1 October 1917. 1917 is spent at Proven, Licques, Fontaine Les Hermans, De Wippe and Haringhe. 1918 is the most travelled year, 58 places against 8 in the next busiest, and is spent at Couin, Gommecourt, Vauchelles, Erquinghem and Arras. 1919 at Agnez-Lez-Duisans, Agnez-Les-Duisans, Hellemmes, Haute Avesnes and Dunkirk. It closes at Hellemmes on 12 November 1919. Agnez-Lez-Duisans is where it spent longest, 63 days, it came back to Erquinghem six separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 33 days at Proven.

In 1917 it is also recorded at Renescure. In 1918 it is also recorded at Proven Proosdy, Steenwerke, Chapelle, Wez Macquart, Norrent Fontes, Les Lauriers, Doulieu, Fleurbaix, Sailly Sur La Lys and Enquiry Len Ives Macquart.