The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries written in France (chiefly at Morlancourt, Fricourt, and the front line).

Significant entries include; /2r-7r. accounts of his last day at the Fourth Army School [Flixécourt], trip to Abbeville, and return to Morlancourt; /7v-8r. activity at Fricourt; /9r-14r. descriptions of a raiding party of 25-27th May [for which Sassoon was awarded the Military Cross]; /20v. a description of his dug-out and of feeling 'shut-in'.

The volume also includes:

- drafts of poetry (some are partial): /8v. untitled, begins 'When stars are out its fun to think of dying'; /26r. untitled ['A Ballad']; /26v-27r. untitled, begins 'A man of many sorrows, Captain Blugg'; /27v. 'A testimonial'; /28r. one line: 'The Nation smiled; for in the morning papers' (remainder erased); /28v-29r. untitled, begins 'Poor Captain Gray was wounded in the calf'; /29v. erased poem beginning ['His mother kissed him when he went away']; /42v-43r. draft of sections of the poem later called 'David Cleek'; /44v. erased poem beginning ['I hear the murmur of their voices']; /45r & 46r. untitled, begins 'Know then that I was born to seek the grail', later printed as 'The Poet as Hero'; /46v-47r. 'In Ramah was heard a voice'; /48r. erased work (unidentified); /48v-50r. 'Après la guerre', later called 'They'; /51r-51v. untitled, begins 'The papers told the public'; /52r-53r. 'In the Know' [later called 'The Tombstone-Maker']; /53v. untitled, begins 'When Arthur joined the army'.

- fair copy poetry: /41v-42r. 'David Cleek'; /47v. 'They'; /56r. 'The Cyssan'.

- sketches and doodles: /6r. preparatory sketch for a water colour of a stained glass window, together with a description; /8r. a hillside with trees and a trench; /45v. abstract image, perhaps a body and propeller.

- Copy of an official report on the raid carried out by the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers on the night of 25th-26th May, together with lists of members of the raiding and evacuating party and their fates: /14v-15r.

- cricket match scores: /43r-44r; /54v.

- a list of words beginning with the letter 'A' or 'B' entitled 'Clean-bred English words', together with words in Old English: /55r-56r.

N.B. Sassoon wrote from both ends of this notebook; after folio /41v entries resume from the opposite end. Folios /30r-41r are blank. Enclosures are to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's.