Diary pages from this date

Mrs. Cryan comes to see Franklin Gimson this morning. She complains that she left a pair of shorts to dry on a line, and on her return she found they'd been thrown into a corner with the zip fastener and the area around it cut out.

No-one has any idea who was the culprit, but Gimson feels that the crime is a symptom of the current 'extraordinarily low morale' of the camp. He has been warning about the deterioration of morale, and this is proof - albeit in an unexpected form - that he was right.

Source:

Franklin Gimson, Diary, Weston Library Oxford, p. 103 (verso)

and 5 yrs married today. Wrote my card to Marj.

Cookhouse construction & wood chopping.

Lorry in 4.20 pm with veg. No paper.

With Steve pm.

Formosan guard tells of US invasion of the Phillipines.

Fine & warm E wind.

I hope that I can look back to this entry next year 11th Oct in the presence of my wife & little daughter.