Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

MQ Ration party reshuffle

Dow / Martin

Three one-act plays – “Her First Dance”/ “Trial Scene from Merchant of Venice”/ “The Last Meeting”

Liner with 2 white crosses arrived; left 23rd 8.30 a.m. (great excitement – believed parcels)

Three one-act plays ((see 22nd for details))

Went to HK by lorry to work at Infectious Diseases Hosp., loading bricks on junk for Stanley – had congee & 4 biscuits – 8.20 a.m. left – 4.30 arrived back in camp

Three one-act plays ((see 22nd for details))

Sewell / Short

Wedding – Francis Sidney Bertram Chisholm, HKFB and Agnes Jan Lyon (at I.H.O., Dow)

Death  - Lionel Ernest Norwood Ryan (56)

a.m. outdoor roll call 

High Jap. Officials visited camp

Fresh fish arr’d in p.m.

Parcels notification (Canadian R.C.)

Parcels from town put into godown

Issue of 2 ozs. tomatoes per head from communal gardens

Sandbach / Myhill (No sermon)

Issue of 1 South African R.C. parcel per person

Death – James Smith Gibson, (72)(Auth. Architect and Surveyors)

Issue of 4 Old Gold cigarettes each

(4.30pm Emergency roll call at S.S.(Indian((sp?)) at wire))

Rec’d parcel (wongtong, biscuits, sweet potatoes) from Mrs. P.C. Wai, 47 Village Road, H.V., H.K.

Beans to be issued in lieu of fish ration. 

Draw for R.C. clothing

Wittenbach (~ Black en((unclear)) / Short (x)

Lt. Hara states re. parcels, all shipments as at present, have been delivered

1 parcel known to have been sold for sterling cheque

Canadian private parcels taken from godown

Death 114 – William Spark (63)

Canadian private parcels distributed (Cigarettes, clothing, toilet articles)

Camp workshop exhibition opened by Gimson

((following text undated, but at top of this page)) Camp Iron Ration - 1 Tin Bully, 1lb beans, 38 biscuits, 8 Capsules