14 September 1945

Still at War

14 Sep 2025

Four members of the Allied Evacuation Committee are visiting the Camp today, and I believe a slap-up lunch is being prepared for them.

I understand No. 3 Camp have been ordered to send their surplus goods to us as their Camp is being cleared out. Some lorries have been sent to make collection.

The Dutch skipper has just returned from Fukuoka and brings the following news:
we leave here on the 19th and leave Nagasaki on the 20th on board an aircraft carrier for Okinawa, where both the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth are. These will take us on to Manilla where we stay for two or three days, then go on to Australia, from where we may go either by air or through the Suez by ship.

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21 September 2025

Following a period of rest & recuperation in the US (San Francisco) Harry finally returned home arriving in Southampton and travelling up to Oban, Scotland to be reunited with his family. Eventually, he would settle in Liverpool, buying up two shops, one with a milkshake bar (US influence perhaps) and

20 September 1945

Reveille 4am. Parade 5:30am. Entrained 6am. Left Miyata 6.24. Reached Nagasaki 12.50. It is absolutely incredible but Nagasaki is in a worse condition than Quetta was after the earthquake (1935). In the whole town, which is very extensive, there are not the shells of half a dozen

19 September 1945

Busily cleaning up and packing ready for moving tomorrow. Now, at 10 o/c to cap it all, the planes are over and dropping loads of 10 in 1 rations. Six drops were made and 500 packages of these rations collected. They will not be of any use to us

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