14 May 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

Yesterday evening the Protestants had thanksgiving service in the open, and Japs made a fuss and said permission must be asked for these things, but allowed it.

Rumour of repatriation, And Okinawa gone to us.

Visited Maria, Mrs Harris and Burgess in hospital. ((Barbara: This is Mrs Violet Harris, shown in Greg Leck's list as 33 yrs at end of camp. She and husband took 7 very young children into camp, and had their 8th child in Stanley.  I had connections with some of their children through plays I wrote.))

Peggy and I played Iris Joyce and Gladys MacNider in evening, they won.

Wrote two poems for children to recite in end of May celebration.

Peggy and I, bridge with Kerslake & Allison, and we won +3!

Then Peggy and I joined Dorothy Wilson, Sheila, Elsie and Gladys on a ledge overlooking the sea to finish the third anniversary of Elsie's reception into the Church. ((Barbara: Elsie Bidwell, whose husband Harold was already RC when they married.))