Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

a.m. outdoor roll-call

Wt. 130lbs.

"No communication whatsoever is now allowed with Mr. Zindel"


Wittenbach (Social service centre of church) / Sewell

No more raw rice issue

p.m. Raid warning


a.m. Heavy bombers over

Canteen draw for S.G. fl., salt, peas


35 cigs. ¥5.25 (packets handed back)

To Mr. & Mrs. Ian Heath, a son (Guy


a.m. outdoor roll-call

Rice bread baked again

Internees allowed to be away from Districts up to 8 p.m.


Beef ration arr'd in evening


Short (What is man?) / Martin /


Play-reading - G.B.S.  "Capt. Brasshound's Conversion" (Colledge, W.Cox, Blair, Smalley, Billingham - MacNider (c) )

((I've only linked the names where there's a single match. For the other names there are several possible matches.))


am outdoor roll-call

4.30 - 5.30 pm to stay in rooms, not to look out of windows - order was cancelled at 4.20 - apparently Europe ????? ((unclear - written in shorthand?))


Beef arrived

Betty Twydale

Y75 canteen (wong tong, bran, salt or soy sauce)

(Y34/8 ozs.)


Brown / Ream (moral disease; inveterate sin; deliberate sin)

7 pm service in Club resumed Heath (SS) 


Medical exam, wt 132 - bl.pr 100


Deputation saw J. authorities about food - J. said "what children want - raspberry tarts"? Another woman said raw rice went further - said bought it from workers' extra rice!


Sandbach (quoted from “Invitation to Live”, “Out of the night” / Myhill

Meat pastie & stew

((following text undated, but on page for July)) J. only allowing 2 concerts a month.


No playing of gramophones or other musical instrument during roll-call, otherwise they will be confiscated


B.M. Onions ¥200 lb, cigs ¥31 for 10

Death – J.J. Osborne (57) formerly of H.K.G.P.O. (typhus) 


Boy scouts disbanded

J. draw attention to misdemeanors on roofs, say “OK between man and wife but…”

Outdoor a.m. roll call

Doctors to report on mental condition of camp