Diary Entry: Tea with Miss Gardiner. Night with Gullands at C.H.S. Diary notes: Miss Gardiner was a colleague of KPD’s at Cumnor House School. The Gullands seem to have been the owners (certainly the Head and his wife) of Cumnor House School. As she did elsewhere, KPD remained friendly with previous employers.
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Diary Date: 10th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Pettmans came for day. Diary notes: Presumably friends KPD had made, or more likely friends of her mother. This is the only mention of them in KPD’s diaries.
Diary Date: 9th May [1942]
Diary Entry: 2nd Inoculation T.T. & vaccination. Went home. Diary notes: Home for KPD was still her Mother’s home, 35 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, Kent.
Diary Date: 7th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Commandants Parade at Cordwalles. Diary notes: ‘Cordwalles’ ceased to be used by the A.T.S. after the war, and for a time was used as the home of ‘Great Ballard School’. (See: http://www.greatballard.co.uk/our-school/school-history )
Diary Date: 2nd May [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to Hindhead for night. Diary notes: Molly Browning, who lived at Hindhead, was a friend KPD met up with regularly over many years.
Diary Date: 27th April [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to Beaufort on Driver Instruction course. Slept Sollack Wood. Diary notes: In her post-war writing about her memories, KPD makes it clear she wasn’t keen to become an ‘instructor’.
Diary Date: 25th April [1942]
Diary Entry: Went home for night. Bonsey went to Sevenoaks. We hitched to Marble Arch. Diary notes: ‘Bonsey’ was clearly a friend KPD made in the A.T.S., and with whom KPD spent some of her leisure time. KPD spoke of hitching during WW2 in later life, saying that wearing a uniform made it easier – …
Diary Date: 22nd April [1942]
Diary Entry: Had supper with Mrs Spedding. Diary notes: Again, not clear who ‘Mrs Spedding’ was, but she seems to have lived locally to the military base where KPD was serving.
Diary Date: 19th April [1942]
Diary Entry: Diana McCallum born in India. Diary notes: A slight mystery as to who this refers to – presumably a friend (or friend of the family) who had a daughter in India. KPD does mention on 4th January 1939 that a ‘Barbara McCallum’ came for the day (to KPD’s Mother’s home in Orpington), so …
Diary Date: 16th April [1942]
Diary Entry: Bonsey went to Pinewood sick bay. Diary notes: ‘Bonsey’ was clearly a friend KPD made in the A.T.S., and with whom KPD spent some of her leisure time. This is the first mention in the diaries. Not for the first time KPD uses a nickname for a friend.
Aunt Pamela's War 