62 nurses arrived from Bowen Road & St. Teresa's hospitals
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4 persons left camp (Chester Bennett, Mrs. Owens) ((I'm not sure which Mrs Owens this was. The only Mrs Evans on John Black's list is Mrs S. M. Owens. However her baby, born in April 42, is described as American, suggesting that Mrs S M Owens would have been repatriated with the other Americans.))
Death of Walter Roy Dockrill (65)
[Prof. W. Brown - “Spitzbergen”]
R.E. Stott escaped from French Hospital – capture reported
Softball concert at I.Q. Ground
Donation of $15,000 from the Vatican for internees announced on notice board.
Shortage of paper (res. To make own Sept. ration cards)
(Rose - “What is truth?”) / Maj. R. Ponting, SA
Death of Miss Leontine Ellis (48)
A.N.S.
((MacNider makes a mistake here - Ms Ellis was with the VADs, not the ANS.))
Mr. E. Gilmore “Some experiences of a District Officer".
New Br. Community Council met for first time at 2:15 this afternoon under the Chairmanship of Mr. F.C. Gimson. Unanimous vote of thanks to ??? ((sp?)) B. Communal C. for their accomplishment during their term of office.
Jap. Sailors walked through camp
Curfew bells rang 9:55 and 11 PM (lights out)
[issue of 8 pkts Royal Leaf $4.80]
"Stanley Minstrels" show (Morning)
Rec'd letter from C.L. Becker
Clothing exchanged at WElfare
Name chipped off HK Prison
Canteen a.m., Jam $5.60/LC syrup $37.20
Americans arrived in New York
Silver wedding - on 25th Aug 1917 at St. Ninian's Church, Golders Green, London, Major David Drummond, Canadian Forces, to Nursing Sister Mary McLean Clark, B.E.F.
Special roll call
10 p.m. roll call
Trouble at main road gate (Croucher taken to station for few minutes)
Notice posted notifying threat by authorities to close gate at bottom of S.S. at 6 p.m. & bring lights out to earlier hour
Welfare enquiry among internees
Killed snake on main road
Lists circulated by Block Reps. for mil, naval & professional qualifications required by C.S.O.
Petition to eject Mrs. Greenwood from kitchen. ((There were two Mrs Greenwoods in camp, Maggie and Bessie. I'm not sure which one is mentioned here.))
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Kitchen & food supervisors for week - Mrs. Gordon Jenner / A W Black / (Brown) / T.Binks
((Barbara Anslow: The Gordon Jenner must be Mrs Dorothy Jenner, an Australian journalist who lived in the Married Q as did MacNider, Black, (also us Redwoods). I heard that she was known in Australia as Andrea, and wrote in the Australian newspaper prewar under that name. She was very voluble, and wrote about life in Stanley postwar in a book "Darlings, I've had a ball".))
