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1945

Monday 1st January

Usual programme, dressed up in morning coat & accompanied HH to call on PA, Guard of Honour of 100
men, they looked very smart, then came back & sat on the veranda, rather gloomy & still covered in with
tarpaulin, while various people came to call, a boring business, some were quite talkative but others sat glum
or conversed about weather, rain. Hick rang up with the good news that Marjorie had been given a silver
Kaiser I Hind medal in the New Year Honours, a very nice thing to have and well earned. I always did
expect that she would get something for the work she has done here, for nothing! Went to see RAF sister at
Rest House about the repairs that are being done there. The house completely upside down & everything
extremely damp. Hick came over in the evening, we didnt go out, he stayed rather late.

Tuesday 2nd January

Didnt go to Fort as it rained & continued to rain on & off during the morning. HH didnt come in & I spent
most of the morning in court taking the arms case, a difficult matter to deal with as we cannot produce our
witness, the informer, as if we did he would get his throat cut. M had quite a flow of letters & phone calls
about her KIH. Went out for awhile in the car, the town very wet again.