Diary pages from this date

I have fed so well. Today's meals ((at hospital)): 2 slices of bread and jam (one with butter) in morning  An extra slice saved.  Tiffin - rice, soya beans, cabbage, small piece of fatty mutton and lump of fat. Evening - mutton stew, with an enormous bone with meat on (whch saved for Mum), slice of cold bully beef and a spoonful of tinned vegetable salad, and piece of tomato, and 2 slices of bread, one buttered.

Took bread up to room, I had 1 slice, Mum & Olive shared the other;  then cocoa, one fig and one apple ring. Had a fruit drop from Mrs K; a piece of chocolate from Olive; a cup of cocoa, one fig and one apple ring.  Mum had dumplings today in rations. 

Canteen today, bought porridge, I'm dying to have it tomorrow.

Whole family out riding tram along Praya to Kennedy Town. Along western waterfront some godowns intact. Further west many warehouses destroyed in the shelling and bombing. Distressing sight bodies of soldiers drifting near Praya. Counted five close in, of which two clearly Japanese and three startlingly white in contrast. Had been moving out and back with tide for two months, and no one's business to collect and give burial.

Started work in kitchen. (This is in the Garage where we first dumped our belongings on our arrival here pal)