Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

Dow ("self-pity") / Rose

Jenner / Pearson


((Where there are several possible candidates for a name in this list, I have left it un-linked))

“Vaudeville” (Garton, Brenchley, Phillips, J. Martin, D. Morley, Talbot, Pacy, Simmonds, Bicheno, M. Wilkinson, R. M????y ((unclear “Mesway” “Murray”?)), Aslett, S. MacKinlay, E. Gray, Barnes, D. Wilson, R. Mills, Sage, J. Valentine, Rawlings, M. Simpson, Farquhar, E. Curtis, C. Wilcox, M. Barton, Pilkington, Ken McLeod, G. de Vleeschouwer, Clauss, Cromlin ((sp?)), J. Critchett, M. Johansen, O. Campbell, E. Grant, S. Mo???? ((unclear “Morris”?)), 3 Van der Lelys, D. Keates, Ronnie Brooks, V. Beaumont, T. Jex, C. Sanh, Reg. Jenner & band, Betty Drown, Patty Mace, Azalea Reynolds)


Rec’d Y 1.29

“Vaudeville” ((for details see 21st)) 


Brown (“They hated me without cause”)

Med. exam. wt. 130 ½ ; bl.p. 105

Johnston ((not sure which Johnston)) / Drown 

b.o 9pm raid


Bulletin….”2 second-hand tyres for hosp. stretcher cost Y 550 each”

Twydale, Brenchley

B.O.


Wittenbach / Ream

Petition about rations read

To Mr. & Mrs. J.E.D. McDermott – a daughter ((I think the "J.E.D. McDermott" mentioned here is same person as the "Mr. E. McDermott" mentioned on John Black's list.))

Jenner / Pearson ((There are a couple of options for people with these names. I guess it refers to a musical event played by Reg. Jenner and G.W. Pearson, both of whom have a musical background.))

B.O.


Death – G.B. Foster (48), Prin. Officer,Prison Dept. (typhus)

Ballet music (Drown, Heasman, Talbot)

B.O.


Death – W.E. Kirby (54), Sec. China Coast Officers’ Guild (Cerebral Malaria)

Issue 6 ozs. Salt