Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

C.P. and C.S. went to town re. Running of Police Force

Gunfire heard in distance

Search in Police quarters

One tin corned beef for 4 persons for two meals

One tin Oxford Club sausages between 8 for 1 meal

1 egg per person

Cabaret and dance S.S. Hall (R.W. Jenner’s band)

Short – “challenge of Palm Sunday” / MacKenzie Dow

Concert at American Club

Sudden change of weather – very wet & rather cold

Death – at K.W. Hosp. Albert, son of J.J. Osborne

Very cold, wet all day

Good weather in afternoon. 

1 tin corned mutton for 4 for tiffin

Brilliant sunshine.

H.C. 7 pm, S.S. Hall - Richards, Higgins, Ream, Beaver

Good Friday – no bread issued. 9 loaves for 700!!!

Prison main gate “out of bounds”

Baby girl born to Mr & Mrs G.H.A.Morris

Baby born to Mrs Denton. ((A post-war report in the China Mail dated the birth to 2nd April, see: http://gwulo.com/atom/23247))

Easter Sunday – a.m. 2 biscuits each: sudden change in weather in p.m. very windy & rain

Sandbach/Short

Cold, wet a.m.

Concert suddenly cancelled.

To Mr and Mrs R.A. Metcalfe, a son

Kitchen row (Ingledew-Keates)

Enemy nationals to be exchanged.

News of escape from camp of Bilmead, Fay, Randall, Morrison.

Incidents at night in Indian quarters.

No. 7 block moved to Indian quarters. Kitchen now 2,3,4 & 5 blocks.

Sudden change in weather (wet,cold);

D.M.S., Jap. Officer visited T.B. Hospital

Banns of marriage E Kennard & Dorothy Deakin

MacKenzie Dow / Richards

100,000 cigarettes sent into camp (Globe) 3 pkts per person