Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

St. David's Soc. & 40th ann. SS College.

Martin / Richards

Welsh lesson Ps. 46 - J.  Owen-Hughes.

Canada repatriation list at C.S.O.

Death of D.E.G. Jantz ((sp)) (36). ((Who was this?))

Flour reduced 6 oz to 3 1/2 oz.

I.Q. Rice ?? ((sp)) others br. every other day.

Rice increased 6 oz to 12 oz.

St. David's Day celebration.

Concert (O'Connor, Heasman, Corra, Drown, Heath  - "That Romantic Age ((sp)) - Yvonne Charter, Nora Witchell (p. W.H. Colledge).

1/2 lb. tea issued.

Petition against food.

Entertainment mtg. (Young).

Macnamara "Tichborne Case".

Canadian list extension to father, mother, brother, sister from wife &/or children.

Attempted burglary at Bung. (A).

Hong softball final – Police 21 v. Hosp. 10

Cards from P.O.W. Argyle Street Camp

3 one-act plays – “Prelude & Fugue” “Farewell Supper” “The Playgoers” Ray Mabb, Whittaker Stone ((or Stanham, name unclear)) Garton, Luke, Brendley, Cooper, Tebbutt, Morgan
p. by Elizabeth Tebbutt & John Stericker. Piano – Mary Goodban.

3 pkts. Hatamen $1.80

3 one-act plays

Wedding – F.E.G. Hall & Ruby Eileen Bliss (Wittenbach) ((There was a Rev Wittenbach in the camp, presumably he performed the service?)) given away by father; bestman – S D Begg; b.maid – J. Armstrong

Sandbach / Martin

2 male kitchen crews organized by Mr. S. Kemp

“White Cliffs of Dover” (W. Cox)

“White Cliffs of Dover”

Stericker, Drown

Evans (“Meteorology”)

Mr Zindel visited Camp 

“If I were you” (PG Wodehouse) (Play by WHE Colledge – W Kirlen/Ripley ((unclear name, maybe W Kirby?)) R Dormer ((sp?)), R Bates,  V Blackburn, Colledge, E M Gray, Cole, Curtis, N Moodie) (Dr.Valentine)

“White Cliffs”

I.Q. 21st. auction (Marmite Y 17.50; 5 lb. jam tin Y16)

Death of Christina Cameron, wife of J.J. Cameron

“If I were You”

5 pkts. May Blossom $3.

1st. in Lent

Rose / Spence

Issue 1 lb. flour

“If I were you”

Bush left Camp. ((Possibly Lewis Bush, though other accounts don't have him arriving at Shamshuipo Camp until the 27th of March.))

Smalley (“Med. officer in Colonial Service”)

Repatriation rumours rife 

St. Patrick’s Day concert

Int’l soccer Eng. 4 Scot. 1 (Pipes) HK 4 Ireland & Wales 1.

“Esther” ballet (Bateman, Brown, Drown, Heasman, Goldie, Peggy Hunter, (Esther), Garton, Moring, N Reynolds – 3 Acts) ((Not sure which 'Brown' he is referring to.))

Norman – “Prisons”

“Esther” ballet

5 pkts. May Blossom $3.00

Issue of 3 lbs. raw rice

“Esther” ballet

(5) ((or S?))