Diary pages from this date

Mary Rogers in hospital with appendicitis. Ivy Batley (26) and Mrs Lena Edgar also in hospital.

Went to see Annie, she made rice pancakes with sugar rolled in.

Got hot water for Fortescues.  Worked in morning. ((Boiled hot water was served from 8 am, when you queued with your container for your share to make tea if you had any left.  The Fortescues and the Redwoods took turns to collect each others))

Catholic Action meeting outside.

Newspaper says Americans pushing forward to Clarke Airfield (Philippines); going ahead in Burma.

Water on in taps - first time for ages.

Evelina Edgar enters Tweed Bay Hospital to have an operation on her right leg. The scar will be noted on her post-war Hong Kong Defence Force identity card (October 21, 1949).

Her husband Thomas Edgar will buy her an egg on the black market to help her recover. It will cost about £27/HK$270 in today's terms.

Overcast, & a little warmer. NE wind.

Workshops.

Altered water boiler fire-box. Great improvement, halved the firing time.

US forces S of Tarlac & on the way to Clark air-field. All fronts OK.

Clouds broke up late pm.