11 Aug 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

Up early and went to Bartons' room (American Block) where Sheila and Pat were married. Father Meyer took the ceremony, which was followed by a Nuptial Mass. Mr. J. Joyce was Best Man. Quentin Macfayden gave Sheila away. Pat looked nervous, Sheila most serene in her dark blue taffeta dress. Hugh Goldie there, Rosaleen Millar and sister Eileen Grant, and Miss M. Paterson.

 ((Miss Paterson was a teacher; she it was who, when a nurse at the Jockey Club wartime hospitall when the Japs first entered that hospital, bravely escaped in the night and made her way via the cemetery to Bowen Road Military Hospital and reported that the soldiers were raping the young nurses; as a result the next day Dr Selwyn-Clarke, Director of Medical Services, visited the Jockey Club with a Japanese official, and the nurses and patients were then all evacuated.. My mother told me about this as she too was nursing at that hospital. ))

Meat today, but I still can't eat rice.

Wedding reception in the Barton girls' room.  ((The Barton family occupied two rooms in American Block, one shared by Mr and Mrs Barton and their 5 sons Alec, Terence, Leo, John and Daniel, the other by their 6 daughters Marie, Margaret (Peggy), Audrey, Wendy, Jacqueline and Rosemary; Marie moved out after she married Vincent Morrison.))

Loads of tasty eats, I only had to refuse once, and the cake was delicious – white thick cream on top. Hugh Goldie there,  Boesterd, Sheila's aunt, Mrs Kella,  Marie Paterson and Bartons.

Worked in am.  Frank Angus' offer worth thinking about, about $400 a month – but I don't want to be working out here all my youth – what's left of it.  ((Frank Angus had in mind some post-war job and asked me if I would join as secretary.))

Margery Fortescue has my trouble (lack of appetite) too she has gone quite thin, and gave me one and a half limes because she was given some.