Unlike other scrapbooks in the series, this volume opens with a series of photographs showing warfare on the front lines. These photographs capture prisoners, refugees, soldiers, tanks, and ammunition mules in various locations across France, including Ham, Arras, Peronne, Roye, Aveluy, Bapume, Mailly-Maillet, Hénencourt, Bouzincourt, Albert and Doullens. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor goes on to combine 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. Sheaccompanies many of her typescript entries with postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings of the people and events mentioned.

In her diary entries, Eleanor reflects on: travelling to Keir, meeting Dennis Robertson, Sir Robert Bruce, and Lord Moray; travelling to London; meeting Sir Philip Sassoon; her work; various social engagements; the opening of the Garden City for Disabled Soldiers, attending a Red Cross Bazaar and winning a kitten; experiencing an earthquake; responding to a request by [Norah Desmond] Hackett to provide for villages in France near canteens with the 3rd Army; and voting for the first time in East Perthshire.

Other photographs in the scrapbook include: a dog seated on top of a battle plane near Beauval; shelling; mishap of military lorry near Arras; repair shop at Hesdin [France]; the London Territorial Regiment encamped near Domart [France]; making a shelter out of biscuit tins near Arras; warfare in Boves, Arras, and Moreuil [France]; Royal Army Medical Corps in Talmas [France], Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; Brigadier General saluting troops near Albert; RAF Scouting Squadron; enemy shell exploding near Bethune [France], the Royal Scots Fusiliers watching Kings Shropshire Light Infantry marching off to the firing line; German prisoners near Bethune; troops in Strazeele [France]; horses being watered in Abbeville [France], French Prime Minister inspecting British troops in Cassel [France]; a dog in the trenches; cavalry on the march in Hardecourt Wood [France].

Other items include: map of the Lys Battle and 1918 battles; newspaper clippings on Zeebrugge; Special Orders of the Day, by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig; French newspaper article on women who were awarded the Croix de Guerre, including Hackett; article by Norah Desmond Hackett on work of the ambulance unit in August; ration book dated July 1918; photographs of members of the Russian Royal family; booklet for ‘The Installation of his Highness Rajah Vyner Brooke' [son-in-law] in Sarawak, 22nd July 1918, alongside the Ranee [Eleanor’s daughter, Sylvia] accompanied with photographs; photographs of sledge dogs and reindeer used for transport in Murmansk [Russia]; postcard of victims of Russian Revolution; Russian military map; newspaper clipping on pneumonia and influenza; French currency; poem titled ‘The Rivers of France’; photograph of German concrete shelters outside Lille [France]; poem on victory; annotation next to a postcard which was sent to Eleanor at the beginning of the war, but which she only received at the end of it; maps for battles of 1918 (August to November), sent by Douglas Haig to her husband Reginald [Brett]; photograph of Compiegne Forest where Armistice signed; clippings about selling home Orchard Lea in Windsor Forest; letter from Henry Wilson thanking Eleanor for book of poems; clipping on presenting Croix to Guerre to women who worked at Scottish Women’s Hospital and photographs; photograph of Elsie Bullough; postcard from Queen Mary dated 1918; newspaper clipping on a stuffed stork from Hotel du Rhin at Amiens [France] deposited in the Imperial War Museum which Eleanor notes she spoke too.