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 now as we have all that we need to last to the end of the train journey. I guess they will be fixed up for some other camp.
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
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
The gale has blown itself out and everything is peaceful again and things are looking shipshape now that the Orderlies have got busy in cleaning up. Have been informed that we parade at 0515 hrs on 20th ready for ,moving off and reach Nagasaki round about midday.