Papers relating to the service of Cyril John Watson, 1941-1945 - Part 15

JUNE.
SUNDAY 20th. - Canteen seems good
again. Plenty of Tapi & bananas. Boys cook
pasties & fruit tarts. Cannot finish them.
Keith takes Mattins & evensong. Reading
most of day.
MONDAY 21st. - Men out to work today.
Bananas, papaya, & pineapple plentiful in
canteen. Fruit salad for tea.
TUESDAY 22nd - Not feeling too hot.
Have touch diharohea. Gate of camp
altered. Old one blocked, new guard house
in use. N very good. Road runs in camp
behind new H.Q. area.
WEDNESDAY 23rd. - Still a bit of S.O.C.
Reading "Word from England" by Tom Bridges
& Kodak on "How to make good pictures."
Latest good story from Osawa at new
I.J.A. office - "We have lovely new office &
good system, everything is running like
a well oiled machine. I am a cog in the
machine. My job is to receive & read
your reports & reccommendations - & to
throw them in the waste paper basket."
Work party just outside fence on road.
THURSDAY 24th. - Usual day. Cleaning
up for visit by Major Suga who does
not appear. Latest for the Offrs. Elect
hut reps. for committee to handle
our finances & entertainments - to be
allowed in the red house once per
week. Madin our rep. We shall see
what comes of this. Still no mail.

JUNE.
FRIDAY 25th .- Major Suga arrives by
plane. No fruit in canteen today.
Reading , "The City of Gold" by F.B. Young.
Standing by in afternoon for parade for
Suga, who arrives late & has quick look round.
Makes short address - not up to his standard.
N - Coming nearer. Heavy b/busting of Macassar.
SATURDAY 26th. - Rains heavily in night &
still showering in morn. No work in the
morning. Dull in afternoon. I make
pasties filling with beans, brinjals & onions.
Excellent pineapples coming in.
SUNDAY 27th. - Communion. Reading
nearly all day. No Tapioca - Food position
not so good. Fruit still coming in.
MONDAY 28th. - Boiling clothes & cooking
most of day. Boil coffee for the workers.
Small quantity of fish comes in & fry
for lunch. Keith Rogers telling us some
amusing stories re Grinter & Hochi.
Number of Malays trying to get horse
off sampan & cannot. Grinter pats
horse & coaxes it. Then gangplank is
too narrow, & while waiting for
extension, Grinter walks off & horse
follows He has Hochi's car so has
good hold over guards. Never has
trouble with them. Small amount fish
in the canteen
TUESDAY 29th - Quiet day. Wild pork
comes into canteen. Braise it in [[part?]]
Very nice.  "Kechil" loses hat and [[caught?]]
trying to give us "Cassera [[Nature?]]". 
 

JUNE
WEDNESDAY 30th - W.P & F Andrews in
today. No credit left in canteen but should
have $10.00 at least left. We are to go
to Hako-yen on Sunday. Hako means
8 pts of compass & yen is garden.
July.
THURSDAY 1st. - Boil slacks & shirt.
Make pasties for tea. Commoditties
in canteen are rising. Oil now 30c.
FRIDAY 2nd. - Cyril Young & I go into
Sandakan with party collecting rice.
Do 3 trips. Good to see outside world.
All Brit names painted out in town.
Very pretty place. W.P in afternoon.
See Aust. Drs. wife. Have shorts cut
down by George. Show on in N. Guinea.
SATURDAY 3rd. - Quiet day. Usual
bit of cooking. Reading "For whom the
bells tolled" by Ernest Hemingway.
Lights taken out of huts today. Looks
like a period of of darkness. [[Sticker?]] out
of hosp.
SUNDAY 4th. - Communion. First party
to Hako-yen in afternoon. Not bad
afternoon. I.J.A. having sports which
we watch. Form of wrestling, running on
Plenty of pineapple, bananas & papaya.
coffee, some sugared peanuts, toffee,
biscuits. Played gramaphone, & Nagai
came in & talked. Had a good feed.

JULY.
MONDAY 5th. - Usual quiet day with bit
of cooking & reading. Another man thro'
on canteen for about $25.00 Someone
tries to interfere with Grouse set.
TUESDAY 6th. Same sort of day. Believe
Nagai is ill. Larger parties for 'drome to
be finished tomorrow. Setting beacons
around 'drome. Have had no RO's for
several days.
WEDNESDAY 7th. - Same sort of day.
Weather very hot & sultry. Heavy rain
storm about 2100 hrs. Second party goes
to Hako-yen. Have good time. The dressing
up to go out is very funny.
THURSDAY 8th. - Start early & boil
sheets and mosquito net. Hair at very
awkward stage & stands up. Drome to
be finished today & then 3 days holiday.
Ted [[Boo?]] has put in groupe oven
and it is used for the first time today.
George & Dan still in hospital.
FRIDAY 9th. - Quiet day reading "Leaves
from a Surgeons Case Book." Bake some
pasties for tea. Very heavy thunderstorms
in night. Lightning terrific & burns out
transformer. Terrific noise & blinding
flashes & heavy rain. Comes in roof &
nearly floods my bed. 

JULY.
SATURDAY 10th. - Airing clothes in sun.
Another book - 'Dr Bradley Remembers' F.B. Young
Boxing in the evening.
SUNDAY 11th. Communion. Keith cooks
morning tea. Another party to Hacko-yen
Carry Jim Flett & Dick Craig up there.
MONDAY 12th. - Nice day. Keith in, releived
by Jock McLean. Obtained "Nanking Road"
by Vicki Baum. Read in evening in Capt
Cooks cubicle. Toddy & 6^th have conference with
Nagai & are to build miniature sports grounds
Feel very cheered with N, our men into Sicily
& offve. in Sth Pacific.
TUESDAY 13th. - Quiet day reading, Drawing
plans of houses with Cyril Young. In evening
lecture on "18^th Century Literature by Ian Payne.
WEDNESDAY 14th - Usual day. Last party to
Hako-yen tonight for month. Work party
building swimming pool & synthetic playground.
THURSDAY 15th. - Just another day.
Rumors about going to Kuching again.
Cooking &c. Boiled brinjals very nice.
FRIDAY 16th. - Medical board of all
Offs. today. Andrew to Hospital. Nearly all
put out to work. Ridiculous situation.
Toney Fahey cuts out a pr. of shorts for me.
from bottom of turn ups.
SATURDAY 17th - O.W.P again. Enjoyed
the day & feel better for it. Have to do
washing when we come in. One year here.

JULY.
SUNDAY 18th - Quiet day. Communion
Reading. Boil clothes. Cooking for tea.
Keith Tyers cuts hair.
MONDAY 19th - About to go to work
when holiday declared. Have been in
camp here for one year. Reading most
of day. Storm at night. Beautiful
sunset. Sun behind dark mass of cloud
showing spectrum colors on small white
fleecy clouds near edge of mass.
TUESDAY 20th. - O.W.P. Usual day. Some
bananas came into canteen again.
Rumours that strife in Sand. caused
Holiday yesterday. Boongs at 'drome rounded
up & taken to Sand.
WEDNESDAY 21st. - O.W.P. Usual day -
B'fast - read - W.P - lunch, read & R.Os -
W.P - Cooking, tea, tong, read - Tengko -
read until dark - talk - Supper anywhere.
Rain during most of night.
THURSDAY 22nd. - O.W.P. Search camp
during day. All spare guards used but
still take all day. No lunch, just sit
near barracks. Naked men carry out
all the tools they collected. Kelly kicked
during search. Tea very late. Then called
away with Lionel Mathews, Spr Davis &
Cpl Graham & they do not come back.
Taken into Sandakan. Camp to go on
dry rice for 2 days. Hoch. to look when
searching Vern's kit - "I think this man
try to escape". Haul includes rifle & pistol,

JULY.
FRIDAY 23rd - O.W.P. Few worried men
in camp. Evening meal dry rice. Lucky
we have a bit of extra stuff.
SATURDAY 24th - O.W.P Usual work
day. Just about to come in but
not let in gate. Another search
Offs. in half way thro'. Have
found a wireless set. More
tools &c. gone. My pen & pencil
gone this time. H. wants to
see my soap. Wells & HH John
& Pom Brown taken into Sand.
Powell, Waddle [[Filmer?]] in cage.
plus "Algy"for tools.
SUNDAY 25th - Day of rest.?
MONDAY 26th - Look out in
evening & more taken away.
No

Songs
Here's to you, Here's to me.
This time next year!
May we be a happy family
This time next year!
Let troubles pass. Lift up your glass
To the friends both far & near,
And hope that we, together all
will be. - This time next year.
He met her in the meadow
when the sun was sinking low
They walked along together
In the twilight afterglow.
She waited until gallantly he'd
lowered all the bars.
Her soft eyes were bent upon his
As radiant as the stars.

She neither smiled nor thanked
him.
In truth she knew not how.
For he was but a farmers boy
And she - a jersey cow.
Silent Night. (Malay.)
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"One finger one thumb keep moving"
Little Miss Muffett Muffett, - Sleeman
Three Blind Mice
[[ees?]] were riding home again

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Bright moon shinging on the river
The floating crocodile is thought dead.
Don't believe the rantings of men
Who boldly swear they are not afraid to die
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Bright moon, bright in the doorway
Recalls to me times gone by
Tomorrow when can we meet &
Until death I wait.
 

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Strolling in the moonlight
And singing, happiness in our hearts
Should our love be broken during ^the walk,
It would be better to die than to live.
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Moonlight, the stars also are shining.
I sit, perplexed, thinking of my love.
Thingking of you who are far from my ^eyes.
Until my heart leaves me.

The Dirty Old Yarra.
When Hitler broadcasted he wanted ^to fight,
There were thousands of diggers who answered
alright,
Then off to the transports their hearts full of ^glee,
And when they reached Egypt what sights they
did see,
They saw the old Wasah, the dirty old spot,
And the maidens whose morals were all
flaming hot,
But the girls of old Melb will always 
do me,
Where the dirty old Yarra flows
down to the Sea.
One morning in Paris, a girl says to me,
Parlez vous Francais, I answered "Oui Oui"
Voules vous Promenade avec moi" said 
she,
"Too right" I said "Sweetie How much will it ^be." 

You never saw girlie so dearly before,
When she said "50 franc" I made straight
for the door
You can get it for 6d an hour says me
Where the dirty -  -  -  -  sea.
One evening the Capt said Sgt Muldoon 
You will take charge of the raiding ^ platoon,
Go over the top is the old Cols. wish,
And if you succeed you may get your ^comish
I may get my commish I said like hell,
I may be a corpse flattened out by
a shell.
You can tell the old Col. that I'd
rather be,
Where the dirty  -  -  -  -  sea.

One morning in Hampshire, I met
Farmer Giles,
Who asked me if I knew a cure for ^the piles.
I said get some turpentine & mix
it with glue,
And sprinkle some mustard & pepper
on too,
Then when your all ready, just
bend o'er a spot,
And get your old missus to slap
it on hot,
I hope Farmer Giles will never
meet me,
Where the dirty  -  -  -  -  -  sea. 

Now you've all heard the tale of
Mamselle Armentiers
Who hadn't been frisky for 40 odd years
Don't beliyou believe all the tales you
are told,
That naughty old lady is both haughty
& bold.
She will spend all your money &
drink all your rum,
And give here 10 francs & she will
tickle your chin.
But the girls of old Melb. will
always do me,
Where the   - - -  -  -   sea
Rounds - Home to dinner, (repeat)?
Hear the bell, do
Bacon & potatoes "
All done well.
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries too,
They are delicious I think don't you
Yes, Yes, I think so too
"On the other side of the hill"
"When we sail down the river to the sea"

For Curries
Tomato Chutney - Remove skins & seeds from
3 ripe tomatos, chop up with ¼ bulk of
white onions, season with salt, add 2 green
chillies, chopped celery, dust woth pepper
& moisten with Anchovy vinegar.
Cucumber chutney - Cut cucumber into
thin strips an inch long, mix with
teaspoonfull fine chopped onions, one
chopped green chilli & one green parsley.
Moisten with teaspoonful of vinegar with
pinch sugar & teaspoon salad oil, dust
with pepper & salt.
Mango & Apple chutney - Coconut chutney
(& other vegetables) can be made in the
same way, with addition of green ginger,
red pepper, cinnamon. Brinjal and
Mashed or cold potato chutney. (same)
Brinjal & plantain both raw & fried in
strips.
Curry Powder -
4 lb Turmeric
8   " Coriander seed *
3   " Cummin seed
1   " poppy seed
2   " fenugreek. *
1   " dry ginger
½   " mustard seed
1    " dried chillies
1   " black peppercorn
* must be roasted
before pounding.
Weights are when
crushed & pounded.
Cork tightly
will improve.
Bottle with salt.
Wyverns Curry Powder.
Also use cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg,
cardamom, garlic, ginger, greens (& more) 

[[Saw?]]
Coconut milk necessary adjunct
Onions should be fried in butter with
spices, curry &c & [[sack?]]  added. Simmer
& add cocanut milk last.
Make with chicken, fish, pork, mutton,
beef, vegetables, eggs.
To thicken, fry flour in with powder.
Ceylon curry - 2 ozs butter in stewpan &
mix in a white onion cut in rings & clove of
garlic (minced). Lightly fry - add 1 tablespoon
flour, 1 desertspoon Turmeric powder,
1 teaspoon salt, & 1 sugar, 1 tspoon mixed
cloves & cinnamon powder & coconut
infusion (No. 2).
Add 1 cup of good stock, 1 tablespoon green
ginger (cut) 3 green chillies
Add prawns & cucumbers (as what you will)
simmer till cooked, add No. 1 coconut
milk, juice lime, stir and serve.
"Kubab" - Squares mutton, slice bacon,
slice ginger, slice onion on skewers in curry. 
Rainbow omlette - separate white & yolks. 
Chocolate & coconut buns toasted.

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