Diary Entry: 2nd inoculation. Diary notes: Again, no mention of what the purpose of this was. It was generally KPD’s way not to question the instructions given to her by those in positions of power.
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Diary Date: 20th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Met Miss Gardiner in Guildford. Diary notes: Miss Gardiner was a colleague of KPD’s at Cumnor House School. As often seems to be the case, KPD remained friends with former work colleagues after she left a post.
Diary Date: 19th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Dentist. Lecture ‘Panama Canal’ with slides. Ensa Concert. Diary notes: ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association – sometimes called ‘Every Night Something Awful’) was set up in 1939 to provide entertainment for servicemen/women. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Territorial_Service Incidentally one wonders about the relevance of the lecture to the war in Europe!
Diary Date: 18th March [1942]
Diary Entry: General Knowledge test. Route March. Diary notes: Given the fact that she was generally well read, and enjoyed walking, neither of these training exercises probably bothered her.
Diary Date: 15th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Met Mollie, Guildford, after Church Parade & she took me back to Hindhead. Diary notes: ‘Mollie’ is probably ‘Mollie Browning’, a friend of KPD since the mid-1930s. She seems to have lived in (or near) Hindhead.
Diary Date: 14th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Went Guildford for tea. Diary Notes: KPD was based near Guildford, so not for the first time she went there when she had the opportunity for some leisure time.
Diary Date: 12th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Went through tear gas. C.A.P. Diary notes: Training for gas (even ‘tear’ gas) reminds one that, following the widespread use of gas during the First World War, both sides feared and trained for its use in the Second World War. Fortunately gas was never used during KPD’s war. “C.A.P.” – is not an …
Diary Date: 11th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Vaccinated. Diary notes: Interesting that she doesn’t say for what – maybe she forgot, or it wasn’t made clear at the time.
Diary Date: 10th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Coy. [‘Company’] Parade, lectures, hockey, drill. Diary notes: At nearly 32 and not having (as far as I know – certainly no mention in her diaries) played sport since leaving school, sports like hockey must have been a shock. But KPD was always fit for her age, walking and cycling until she was …
Diary Date: 9th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Dentist, Respirator issued, Drill. Went [to] tea in Guildford. Diary notes: KPD getting fully into A.T.S. life and becoming used to it. As Stoughton barracks was in Guildford, KPD took advantage to go to tea here.
Aunt Pamela's War 