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This thread is here for members to post their old personal diary entries (written or unwritten).Here is mine for:
----------------------------------------Friday, 27th April 1945 – first day of leave As far as I can remember, the seven days of leave does not include travel time, so my furlough starts today. It feels good to be sleeping between bed sheets again, and I was late getting to bed this morning, so today is a lazy day at home with the family and the telephone, plus a visit to the post office to rid me of that excess “kit” (items with which my comrades have loaded me for delivery). [Edit 3 times, last edit by Former Member at May 19, 2007 10:39:45 AM] |
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Saturday, 28th April 1945 – second day of leave from Germany
----------------------------------------While on leave, I enjoy furlough’s fabulous four – freedom, family, food and friends. True, food is rationed, with the exception of bread, which will be rationed later, but it is wholesome, home cooked and made with fresh ingredients. About half a week ago, I was on Luneburg Heath at the RAP (Regimental Aid Post) of 6th Royal Scots, while the rest of the company were in Uelzen, on the edge of the heath. Before the day was out, Corporal Shoesmith, the dispatch rider who had taken me there, called to take me back to a transit camp to start my long journey home. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 19, 2007 10:39:00 AM] |
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Sunday, 29th April 1945 – third day
----------------------------------------First, there is freedom – go anywhere, Southport, New Brighton, Hoylake. Do anything, as long as it is legal and I have the fare. Liverpool is beginning to recover from the war time bombing. The streets have been tidied up; the temporary city water main has been replaced by a permanent one and the temporary city telephone exchange ("Advance, dial ADV") has become permanent. Gill Moss, a new prefabricated suburb, will also have a dial exchange.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 19, 2007 10:38:12 AM] |
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Monday, 30th April 1945 – fourth day
----------------------------------------Next, there is family – father, mother, sister and brother, lots of uncles and aunts and cousins by the dozens, mostly living in Merseyside. Most of the local transport services have recovered from the bombing, but the underground services have not yet been amalgated, with interchange stations, and the Overhead Railway is so badly damaged that it can never recover, so a bus service has replaced it.  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 19, 2007 10:40:41 AM] |
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Tuesday, 1st May 1945 – fifth day
----------------------------------------Next, there is food – rationed, it is true, but including fresh vegetables, milk, meat and fish, fresh fruit, sweet biscuits and an occasional new laid egg - not all out of tins and none dehydrated (except for the dried eggs - imported from China by Goldrei-Foucard). True, there are shortages - there is talk of bread rationing for the first time. Petrol (gas) will be “Pool” (unbranded) for eight years to come, and the old banana boats are still converted to troopships, so there is not one banana.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 19, 2007 10:41:36 AM] |
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Wednesday, 2nd May 1945 – sixth day
----------------------------------------Finally, there are friends and a favourite female. Bundy is not sure if this happened on the present leave or his final embarkation leave, just a year ago, but the lady is one he first met either at Balfour Services Club in Portland Place, or at West Hampstead Maccabi Club, while he was a French instructor in 163 Field Ambulance, in Hampstead, London in 1943/4. She has come to Liverpool to spend her days with Bundy and her nights with Barbara. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 2, 2007 5:39:53 PM] |
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Thursday, 3rd May 1945 – seventh day
----------------------------------------This leaves, or so it seems, only the final farewells and a few memories. Bundy still remembers those first few embarkation leaves to Southport, where people would ask, “On leave again, when are you going back?” Liverpool folk tend to ask, “Home again, how long have you got?”,which means the same, but sounds more welcoming? [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 19, 2007 10:42:25 AM] |
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Thursday, 3rd May 1927
- Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY patented the electric sign flasher. It said , “Eat Here, Get Gas” . Thursday, 3rd May 1933 - The United States Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time. Mrs. Nellie Ross assumed command |
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Friday, 4th May 1945– eighth day of 7 day leave!
----------------------------------------Bundy kits himself up and takes an L.M.S. train from Lime Street. At Crewe, someone in authority calls out, “Leave party number 538 has an extra day’s leave”. Nobody needs telling twice. Most of the other members of the party start looking for the next train to Liverpool. Bundy crosses the island to the other platform, where there is a Great Western train standing, bound for Birkenhead. He takes this to Rock Ferry and changes to a Mersey Railway train bound for Central station, where he walks in full kit through Lewis’s to Renshaw Street, crosses the road to the tram stop and takes a number 8 tram to Mossley Hill. On the way, he is struck by the amount of rebuilding in Lewis's. Just four years ago, the chain store was laid waste internally by a German parachute mine, while Blackler's over the road was completely flattened and moved into a dozen or so small shops in Bold Street. Lewis's, meanwhile, have moved into their administration building next door, and are now moving back again. They have commissioned Jacob Epstein to create a statue on the corner of the repaired building. This will represent "Liverpool Resurgent" and will be of a nude man standing on the prow of a ship. Local people have already given it the nickname of "Dicky Sam" [Edit 4 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 7, 2007 11:07:08 AM] |
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Saturday, 5th May, 1945
----------------------------------------Bundy says: "My leave seems to be definitely over, so I take the L.M.S. to Euston, London Underground to Waterloo, the Southern Railway to Newhaven and a ferry to Dieppe, travelling all day, and all night, including inspection and registration of leave passes and travel warrants. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 13, 2007 5:00:51 PM] |
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