Handwritten daily entries accompanied by line drawings and colour illustrations drawn by the author.
Subjects include: rent reduction after the Rent Restrictions Act (29 Jan); reported paper shortage (5 Feb); preparations for impending blackout in Glasgow (23 - 24 Feb); street lights painted for blackout (1 Mar); lamp posts painted white (22 Mar); watching "She" at the cinema (25 Mar); serious strikes of Clyde workers (29 Mar); report of first Zeppelin attack in Scotland (3 Apr); reference to John Maclean's imprisonment for sedition (13 Apr); Scottish Women's Hospitals flag day (15 Apr); uprising in Ireland (25 Apr - 8 May); at recruiting office (2 May); medical examination at recruiting office and assessed as medically unfit for active duty (10 May); introduction of Daylight Saving Time (21 May); the beginning of the Battle of the Somme (1 Jul); visiting friend wounded at the Somme (2 Aug); his visit to Belfast (2 - 10 Aug); visiting the cinema to see "The Battle of the Somme" (30 Aug); his son's first day of school at Victoria School (4 Sep); account of man throwing a bomb out of a window in Bridgeton (10 Sep); commemorative picture of Jack Cornwell for the Ward at the Star and Garter Home, Richmond (21 Sep); threatened water shortage (30 Sep); salary increase (6 Nov); burning of Victoria School (14 Nov); his wife attends a school teaching war cookery (15 Nov); government fixes the price of milk (21 Nov); arrival of Native Americans in Glasgow en route to the front (8 Dec); purchase of a war loaf (9 Dec) and visit to the Rogano (25 Dec).
Debits and credits for 1916 recorded at the end of the volume.