The scrapbook opens with a description of Eleanor visiting the French Front, dining in Compiegne and being given a tour of a hospital based in Chateau Sainte-Annel. The Eshers travelled back to London where she continued her work running First Aid classes at the Duke of York’s Headquarters in between seeing Sylvia [daughter], Zena [daughter-in-law], and their families and swallowing a chicken bone where she ‘thought my last moment had come’. Eleanor returned to Paris, where she comments on the heightened security arrangements, before visiting the sculptor and explorer Mr Ward, who shows Eleanor some of the souvenirs collected from Africa. She also includes a paragraph on visiting the Scottish Women’s Hospital based in Royaumont [France] and the Canadian Hospital. Throughout this time, Eleanor notes regularly dining with the Cambeforts, the Granvilles, the Doumayrous; Ephinstones, alongside spending time with her daughter ‘Doll’ [Dorothy].

Eleanor reflects on the frenetic activity of soldiers when staying at a Folkestone and ‘the never flagging work at the Duke of York’s’. In mid-April, Eleanor notes how: they spent just over a week in Scotland; her husband attended the Memorial Service for King Edward at Windsor; and their luck at narrowly missing a train crash in Gretna owing to Lord Kitchener requiring the Eshers to visit France, changing their plans. While in France, Eleanor notes that she holidayed with Sylvia at Orchardlea, before returning to London, where she comments on her wartime attire. Back in France, she writes about attending an exhibition of artwork made by soldiers, a separate exhibition where she purchased items made by soldiers, and later visiting an initiative for restoring soldiers’ clothes. Towards the middle of the volume, she pasted in some flowers pressed from the Alsatian Front; her thoughts on ‘silly women’ running the White Feather Campaign; and a letter from the sculptor Herbert Ward, enclosing some poetry written by his daughter Frances Phippes (née Ward). Eleanor includes a short article recording her promotion to the Lady of Justice of Jerusalem in England. She also documents a difficult crossing between England and France and the birth of Sylvia’s baby, Valerie.

Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which she notes on small pieces of paper on the right-hand side of her volume. She continues to demonstrate a fascination with the presence of animals in the battlefield. Eleanor accompanies many of her typescript entries with postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings of the people and events mentioned, as well as train tickets, receipts, ribbons, and identity documents, which include a headshot of Eleanor.