Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

Case of suspected diphtheria in I.Q. Block 13 (Mrs. Williams): Concert cancelled.


Jap. Doctor visited camp; Bl. 13 cordoned off.

Death of Samuel Lillicrap (53).


Issue of 2 M&V. & 1lb. sugar each.


Carol service on bowling green. Many Xmas parcels.

I.W.C. gift of peanuts. Present for each child.

John Michell (Police) & Enid Mabel Martin (widow). (M.Dow) (Prison Officers’ Social Hall).

Curfew ext. 9 p.m.

38 left for Shanghai.


To Mr & Mrs C Sallis (d)

Services on bowling green

HC (2) Brown (c) / Short : Sandbach / Wittenbach (c)

10am – Short

Sandbach 4pm

(Curfew ext. 9pm)


Xmas cards rec'd from S.S.PO


Nativity play (Betty Mills, Drs. Valentine, Alderton, Uttley, Revs Richards, Martin, Wittenbach / Garton, Robertson, Thomas)


Optimists concert

2pm. Hosp. concert


(Brown) / Alton

RC nativity play

Death of J. Ross pensioner CMSNG, 69, S'hai


Moring's “Uncle Ned's Cabin” (p. Bill Colledge)


Moring's “Uncle Ned's Cabin”


Moring's “Uncle Ned's Cabin” & matinee


“Twelfth Night” {Dormer, Colledge, Kirby, Cox, Witchell, Charter, Moodie ((sp.?)), Bates, Curtis, Armstrong, Brown ((or "Bronen"?))}