Diary Entry: Typhoid & tetanus inoculations. Diary notes: Military personnel received inoculations rather earlier then the general population.
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Diary Date: 6th March [1942]
Diary Entry: Joined A.T.S.* Went to I.T.C. Queen’s Camp, Stoughton, Guildford. Had medical, kit issue. Diary notes: ‘I.T.C.’ is ‘Infantry Training Centre’; KPD went to the Queen’s Camp at Stoughton to complete hers; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoughton_Barracks From reading KPD’s diary it is clear she had been planning to join up for some time, and had left her …
Diary Date: 3rd March [1942]
Diary Entry: Left Tun. Wells early. Diary notes: No explanation of why KPD left ‘early’. Presumably she wanted more time with her family before starting work in the A.T.S.
Diary Date: 2nd March [1942]
Diary Entry: Tea at Jerviswood. Diary notes: Jerviswood (a house in Lower Green Road, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells) was the home of KPD’s Uncle Claude Evershed (1867-1943) and his wife, Clara (c.1867-1960). Elaine Dell (KPD’s sister-in-law) also lived in the Tunbridge Wells area.
Diary Date: 1st March [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to stay A[Aunt] Consie Tun Wells. Diary notes: ‘Aunt Consie’ is Edith Constance Beckwith Evershed (1868-1951), unmarried elder sister of Nellie Dell, and perhaps the closest of her Aunts to KPD, who visited and stayed with her on many occasions.
Diary Date: 26th February [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to Hobart House, for medical A.T.S. & enrolled. Anthony to supper. Diary notes: Hobart House, in Whitehall, was one of the headquarters of the A.T.S. and KPD, like others, joined the organisation through it. After WW2 it seems to have become the headquarters of the National Coal Board.
Diary Date: 25th February [1942]
Diary Entry: Up to London to W.R.N.S. & A.T.S. Recruiting centres. Met Lilian Richards. Diary notes: The A.T.S. (the Auxiliary Territorial Service) was the women’s branch of the British Army see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Territorial_Service The W.R.N.S. (the Women’s Royal Naval Service) – was the women’s branch of the RN; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Royal_Naval_Service Lilian Richards was a friend KPD …
Diary Date: 22nd February [1942]
Diary Entry: Left Bramblewood. Anthony at home. Diary notes: KPD’s temporary job finished; Anthony (born 1909, he was KPD’s closest brother) married Peggy (1910 – 1991), his first wife and mother of his two children, Grahame & Jennifer. A recent photo of Bramblewood house.
Diary Date: 17th February [1942]
Diary Entry: Took Judith to tea Patricia. Diary notes: The Lewis family (whom KPD had worked for in the 1920s and who had become friends) were wealthy – their chauffeur had taught KPD to drive for example. The Prynnes, judging by their home (see photograph in next diary entry, 22nd February), were of a similar …
Diary Date: 12th February [1942]
Diary Entry: Susan Veronica Dell born Patricia came to tea with Judith. Diary notes: Susan Veronica Dell Cargill (1942-2010), daughter of Gerald & Jean Dell, was KPD’s niece. She spent her life in Chile, where she married and had three daughters. This photograph – presumably taken by a professional photographer – shows her as a …
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