Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

Rice milk in use

Grayburn, Streatfield brought to gaol

MacNamara "Clemenceau"

????? ((unclear)) Porridge & peanut butter to children between 3 to 18

Hospital concert (Heat, Large, MacNider, Beck, Brenchley, Heasman, Eager ((Thomas Eager: this may be my sister)) - c. Colledge)

SSB3 v. 12C2 

"Mimi" (musical comedy) (p. by Dean Smith & Isaac Newton)

"Mimi" ((for details see 15th))

"Mimi" ((for details see 15th))

Issue of 5 Brocade or May Blossom

Sandbach / Alton

"Mimi" ((for details see 15th))

Alton "Farming in Kwangtung"

Issue of 1lb. flour ?? ((unclear)) siege biscuits

Masefield's "Good Friday" (Charter, Mills, W Cox, Wittenberg, Laurensz)

(("Good Friday" is a poem by British writer and Poet Laureate, John Masefield. Not sure who the other, unlinked performers' names refer to.

AJ Savitsky painted this portrait of Richard Mills in character:

))

GOOD FRIDAY 3 hour service (Short)

Masefield's "Good Friday"

Football - SS 'B' (Champs) v. The Rest

Presentation of shields

Issue of 4 May Blossom

Masefields's "Good Friday"

(Black-out-lights out 10pm)

EASTER 7am. Sunrise Service (Sandbach)

10a.m. (Wittenbach(p), Martin, Brown, Short)

4pm, Carol service  (Martin)

ANZAC DAY - Wreaths laid by altar

Softball season 1943 opened

B.O.

B.O.

C.J. Norman refused to B.O. (Int'l Convention). Strict notice on board re black-outs

Martin "SS College 1903-1943"

Talbot in gaol

Exhibition opened by F C Gimson ((Not clear if this happened on 27th or 28th))

B.O.

Evans death inquiry. ((Probably Vi Evans, who died earlier in the month. See Barbara Anslow's diary entry for 6th April: http://gwulo.com/node/10975))

Ration coolies stopped from ????? ((unclear - "coming in" ?))

B.O.

Evans death inquiry verdict ((Probably Vi Evans))

Large party of J. officers visited fort

B.O.

Tokyo declines to release money for allowances

Classical concert (Goodban, Roy ((sp?)) Heasman, Bicheno)

No black-out

Ballet party

Rice reduced to 8.1oz per day. Flour increse to 4.22 oz. per day

5 pkts May Blossom

Issue of 2lbs. sugar

Classical concert ((see 30 April for details))

200-word letters allowed.

Brown / Spence  "Platonic friendship - Am I my brother's keeper"

bathing beach opened at 2pm