Archive for March, 1942

Fri 9.50 P.M. Mar 27 [1942]
# MORE SPRING CLEANING
# RON NOT SELECTED IN POSTING DRAW
# NIECE IVY CONSCRIPTED FOR WAR WORK
# ‘FATHER’ ASSISTS STRANDED ASTHMA SUFFERER

Tomorrow Rene hopes to come home for tea. They...
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Mar 22 Sun. 7.30 P.M. [1942]
# SPRING CLEANING COMMENCED
# FIRE IN CHAPEL ST LEONARDS CENTRE
# NEW WATCH FOR JEAN
# TWO WEDDING DATES ANNOUNCED

A dull cold spring day but it is drying up a...
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1942
Mar 21 Sat. 10.00. P.M.
# WELCOME TO SPRING – NEW BOOK
# A PRAYERFUL POEM

First day of spring, now nature is reborn. ...
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Mar 16 Mon. 8.15 P.M. [1942]
# REPLACEMENT CAR INVESTIGATED
# FALSE REPORT OF MENINGITIS DEATH
# MILDER WEATHER RETURNS
# FINAL ENTRY IN CURRENT DIARY BOOK

Father went to Sloothby this morning to look at...
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Thur. Mar. 12 9 p.m. [1942]
# PICTURESQUE SPARKLING RIME FROST
# FIRE ACCIDENT, CLEARING ALLOTMENT
# NEWS FROM SOLDIER FRANK ADAMS
# MAKING SHIRTS FOR ‘FATHER’

It was a very big rime frost this morning. When I...
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