Diary pages from this date

Mabel 19 today.  Popped up to ward to say Happy Brthday to Mary, it's her birthday too - 24th.   Mara, Nan and friends gave Mabel pretty birthday (home-made) cards, and hankies, and a party this afternoon in the cemetery.
Mrs G cooked the cake!  -- nominally for Nan's friend Una ((Brown)) in Married Q. kitchen. ((Constance Una Brown, whose husband in HKVDC was killed during fighting; their little daughter Annette also in camp.))

To Benediction in afternoon.   In evening piano recital..  The lovely music upset Mabel, because no Sid here on her birthday.

Later we fried sweet potatoes from Mr Gelling's ((J.H. Gelling)) garden ((they were birthday present)), and had salmon and rice; Nan came along too - a nice little spread.

Duke of Kent was apparently killed on 25th August.

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Kitchen & food supervisors for week - Mrs. Gordon Jenner / A W Black / (Brown) / T.Binks

((Barbara Anslow: The Gordon Jenner must be Mrs Dorothy Jenner, an Australian journalist who lived in the Married Q as did MacNider, Black, (also us Redwoods).    I heard that she was known in Australia as Andrea, and wrote in the Australian newspaper prewar under that name.  She was very voluble, and wrote about life in Stanley postwar in a book "Darlings, I've had a ball".))

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