Diary Entry: Maidstone. Saw d.bug. [doodle-bug] shot down. Diary notes: If you could hear a doodle-bug, my mother told me, you were safe, as that meant they were flying over and past you. But if the engine noise stopped, they would start to fall… Ways of defending against the V1 are shown in this article: …
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Diary Date: 15th June [1944]
Diary Entry: Doodle-bugs started night. Diary notes: The first V1s (‘doodle-bugs’) actually fell on 13th June. They continued to be used even after the V2 rocket was introduced in September 1944. For more information on the V1 see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1973-029A-24A / Lysiak / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5482719
Diary Date: 14th June [1944]
Diary Entry: Went on location Pinner 8am-7pm Break Hatch End. Tea Pinner with Steve. Diary notes: After the war, in her memoir, KPD wrote: “Then June 12 to Wembley to drive Army Kinema Service (sic)*. The best part of my army days in spite of doodle-bugs starting. Went on location, drove London, took “rushes”, went …
Diary Date: 13th June [1944]
Diary Entry: Saw Lt Batty. Took over new Ford V.8. Diary notes: KPD mentions both a ‘Lt Batty’ and a ‘Captain Batty’ in her diary – possibly the same person.
Diary Date: 12th June [1944]
Diary Entry: Posted to 3 Lond[on] Dist.[rict] Group. 7 Kings Drive, Wembley. Slept 28 The Paddocks. Diary notes: This new posting was to help with the “Army Kinematograph Service”, which “was established by the British government in August 1941 to meet the increasing training and recreational needs of an army at war”; it was based …
Diary Date: 11th June [1944]
Diary Entry: Instructed Hindhead (Saw M.B. & D. Webb) Devil’s Punch Bowl, Cutmill tea Doone café, Hog’s Back. Diary notes: The Webbs, who lived at a house called Ingleside in Chesham, were friends whom KPD frequently visited, esp. Dorothy and Marjorie. The Hog’s Back and Devil’s Punch Bowl were, and still are, well known beauty …
Diary Date: 10th June [1944]
Diary Entry: Innoculated (sic) & vaccinated. Drove Blackdown pm & saw “Mrs” Pullin. Diary notes: A round trip of some 54 miles. The use of inverted commas round ‘Mrs’ is rather strange -s it KPD suggesting “Mrs” Pullin was only pretending to be a married woman?
Diary Date: 5th June [1944]
Diary Entry: Went to Windsor with Janet Davies Service St George’s Chapel. Night driving – Canadian officer on path Diary notes: As this was a Monday, presumably not a major service at St George’s Chapel – or perhaps KPD got the date wrong and it should have read 4th June.
Diary Date: 3rd June [1944]
Diary Entry: Hitched Farnham, bus to Hindhead Diary notes: Although only 20 or so miles in all, one wonders how KPD got back to Camberley – bus or hitching?
Diary Date: 31st May [1944]
Diary Entry: Convoy from supper out. Diary notes: Given the blackout, driving at night was difficult and dangerous, as this later newspaper article shows: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/01/blackout-britain-wartime
Aunt Pamela's War 