Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 61st Division, covering September 1915 to May 1916 across 701 pages. It names 7 places across 11 dated entries.

Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two casualty and personnel returns, 34 reports, narratives and plans, 92 Operation Orders, fifteen appendices, twenty maps and six diagrams. Among the papers are: List of casualties; Evidence from 2/7 Warwicks As to German casualties; Report on raid night of 24th/25th Augt.1916; Report on raid night of 24th/25th August, 1916; 61st Division order numbered 1 to 71 (6 of them); Amendment to Divisional order No. 22; Divisional order No 22; Appendix I report on Action 1st July, 1916; Instructions for raid on Enemy's trenches; 61st Division instructions; Effect of Recent Gas Attacks on the enemy; Amendment to 61st Division orders No.33.

The diary opens at Boreham on 1 September 1915. 1915 is spent at Boreham and Hatfield Peveral. 1916 at Boreham and St Venant. It closes at St Venant on 29 May 1916. Boreham is where it spent longest, 123 days across five separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31.

In 1915 it is also recorded at Boreham HQ. Chelmsford, Witham and Boreham House.