Very hot.
No air raid.
Bridge in afternoon with Dick Cloake, Betty Drown and Mr Simmons in our room.
Kitchen staff of American and Married Quarters walked out.
Diary pages from this date
Death of James Owens, mariner, aged 44.
He was one of the Stanley Camp's Irish community. His father (also James) had died in 1934 and his mother Annie in 1939. His brother Frank drowned at sea in 1915. The family were from Baltray, County Louth.
Source:
http://www.termonfeckinhistory.ie/graveyard_inscriptions_17.html
Death - James Owens (44)
Warm, cloudy. S wind.
Door channel [?] in Block 13.
German lesson aft.
Fronts in E. now known as Central Front.
Cookhse staffs walked out but fresh squads organised.