Wind getting up.
Got talking to a ginger-haired steward. I think they are overworked with us being on board. He says we're the third lot of passengers they've carried, they carried 100 evacuee children from Canada back to UK. ((Clifton anxious that Mabel 'won't wait for him')) We prayed that she would.
Those left in Stanley live the dream today: they're served 'bangers and mash' (sausages and mashed potato). This traditional English meal was one of the dishes most fantasised about during internment.
Source:
China Mail, September 28, 1945, 2
Cooler.
Passengers for Aust. disembarked 11am.
Underway 4pm after Lady Louis Mountbatten had given us a speech & we had embarked 400 Naval ratings.
£2 issued.