21 May 1944, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

On Thursday I received three glorious letters from you dated 22/11/42, 8/3/43 and 1/4/43 and the latter is the most recent of the letters from you I have received. I am very grateful to you Dearest for the faithfulness and goodness of your dear self for I know by the dates of the letters I have received that you have written to me every week and tho' they take a long time to reach here nevertheless they are very precious and have been joyfully received. I only wish we here had been allowed to write as often and had the freedom to say what were our innermost thoughts and judging by the shortage of mail being received at your end it would appear as if some if not most of the letters and postcard written here had either been scrapped or lost. Thanks a lot.

I saw the doctor on Thursday as assigned and am much improved as regards the beri beri, but at the moment I am suffering from diarrhoea and pains in my tummy and my piles are very painful with a lot of bleeding.