R. E. Jones Wartime diary: View pages
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Sunbathed, cold shower, clothes washing & reading took up the day.
Fine hot weather.
Sugar scarce & dearer Y1.40 1lb ($5.60) 7/-
((G.))
Walk with Steve pm.
((G.))
Saw my camphor-wood box pass.
((The "camphor-wood box" must have been one that Jones had previously owned, but that had been lost during the chaotic times during and after the fighting. He got it back though, as his younger daughter Diana told us in 2013:
I have a camphorwood box that Daddy recognised and it also had their address in the lid - it was returned to him - the legs had been sawn off and lock broken and the Japanese had used it to store their rifles.
))
Cookhouse.
Plenty good news around if true. Repatriation jambed [jammed?] in London? Invasion fleet ready at home. Bizarts [?]captured, Germans evacuating via Gabes [?] & their barges etc being bombed. Smolensk by-passed by Russians. Indians giving Japs trouble locally.
Walk with Steve pm.
((G.))
Dull & rainy.
Windy, cold & dull.
Remaining 4 tins of corned beef issued also 2lbs sugar. With Steve to classical concert at St Stephen’s pm. (Finland finished)
Drizzly & dull.
New Chief of F.A. dept. called.
B.C.C. meeting.
Special showing of “Springtime & Henry”. ((G.))
Walk with Steve pm.
Food quantities less than before.
