I came out of hospital this afternoon, Prof. Digby required the bed for another patient so I got my oar in and said that I could easily go out now as yesterday he had me on the operating table and made a thorough examination of my rectum and found everything going well. I have to see him on Saturday for another look see.
Diary pages from this date
Overcast, cold. NE wind.
No work, no rations, hungry.
Water on.
Jap say Pacific situation grave. British Pacific Fleet in Aust. 8th. Landing force at San Fernando 6th in Luzon. Churchill, Stalin & Roosevelt to meet after 20th. All seems to be going well for us. Montgomery created Field Marshall.
Diana Hardoon's and Joan Critchett's 21st birthdays.
Ground some rice.
We had noodles in evening, then to Block 5 stairway and heard Miss E. M. Gibbins' first lecture on European History. ((A teacher by profession, also taught throughout camp)).
Adrian Fortescue (3) has chicken-pox (lived with parents Tim and Margery in kitchen next to our room).