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2.30pm "Call It a Day" by Dodie Smith ((see 28th Sep for details))


Outdoor roll-call in rain

2.30pm "Call It a Day" by Dodie Smith ((see 28th Sep for details))


Sandbach / Brown

R.C.A.M.C. Multevit capsules issued one every other day


Death – Maurice Alfred Johnson (60)


Death - Maria Anne Duncan (72), wife of R. Duncan

Issue of Y12.50


Dow / Myhill ((sp?))

Death – Bruna Rose Humphreys (55), wife of Ernest Humphreys.


Unloaded rice from junk   7-11 p.m. Electricity resumed

Heavy p.m. Raid  36 planes


Explosion heard 9.30 p.m. approx.


HK News claim 6 planes brought down. ((“x” links this to the report of the big air raid on the 16th.))


Rose / Ream

Death – Maj. Gen. Francis Arthur Sutton, M.C., A.M.I.C.E. (60)


Weight 132 lbs.

SS. – Ian Heath


Got 1½  cigarettes as Kitchen worker 


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