Overcast, wind dropped.
Workshop, odd jobs.
Weather beautiful aft. onwards.
Lorry with veg & fish 5.30pm.
Planes & “thumps” heard but no A/r warnings.
Diary pages from this date
After work, to beach with Clifton & Mabel to get salt water, then German lesson, and rehearsal, then shorthand with Mrs. G. Goddard.
My watch went ((for valuation and sale through Black Market)) - marker received.
To lecture on 'Murder'.
L. A. Collyer, head attendant at the Mental Hospital before the war, admires the work of the nurses but is in cynical mood:
All of the Civilian, Army & Navy Sisters & The Volunteer Nursing Services have done marvellous work, both during and after the war, & some of them paid heavily. The work the Sisters have done in the Camp Hospital certainly deserves recognition, and thus makes me doubt very much that they will get it, more likely it will be ignored. But I don't think there's a man in the Camp who doesn't feel the same.
Collyer goes on to note that some of the Eurasians are also deserving of sympathy: they weren't allowed to take part in the 1940 evacuation, 'but the Govt. were pleased to make use of their husbands, etc. during the war.
Source:
Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, entry for today