Papers relating to the service of Cyril John Watson, 1941-1945 - Part 17

DATE	21 Nov 1944	24 FEB 1945	2  APRIL 1945	29 JULY 1945
NECK	14"	14"	13"	13¼"
SHOULDERS	42"	40¾	39¾"	39½"
CHEST (Norm)	34½"	34"	33¼"	33½"
"         (Exp)	37"	35½	35½"	35"
WAIST	29¼"	27"	26¾"	25"
BICEPS	10½"	9½"	9½"	8¾"
FOREARM	10¼"	9¼"	9¼"	9"
WRIST	7"	6¾	6¾"	6¾¾"
HIPS	35"	34½"	33¾"	33"
THIGH	18½"	17"	16"	15½"
CALF	14	13½	13"	12¼"
ANKLE	9"	9"	8¾"	8¾"
WEIGHT	10-5	9-1	8-6

Attractive Literature
Lines worth remembering
"How dull it is to pause to make an end, 
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use
As though to breathe were life
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
⁠What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
⁠Then come kiss me, sweet-&-twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

God who created 

Nimble & light of limb

In three elements free
To run, to ride, to swim;
Not when the sense is dim,
But now from the heart of joy,
I would remember Him:
Take the thanks of a boy

"But each day brings its petty dust
Our soon choked souls to fill,
And we forget because we must
And not because we will"

Matthew Arnold.)
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow,
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will thank us so
(Pope's Essay on Criticism)
You cannot have again - a second chance,
The spoken word, or a lost opportunity.
I feel part of me is missing. 

Learnt - "Say not the Struggle" - A H Hough

"Come live with thee" - C Marlowe
"As some tall cliff" - O Goldsmith

"The fountain mingles with the river" - R Lovelace

The Spectrum of Love -

Patience, kindness, generosity,

humility, courtesy, unselfishness,

good temper, guildessness, sincerity.  

"The spectator for all time & full of all existence"

"Pluto"

"All things are taken from us, & become

Portions and parcels of the dreadful past

Humiliation is a very different condition of

mind from humility. Humiliation no man

can desire: it is shame and torture.

Humility is the true peace rightful condition of

humility - peaceful, diverse."

"Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
"Where did you get those eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry twinkles left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I went by.
What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than any one knows.
Whence that three cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get this pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.
Love made itself into bonds and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs wings.
How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.
But how did you come to us, my dear?
God thought about you, & so I am here. 

 G McDonald.                             

Two very nice books for gifts - 

Portrait of a Village. F B Young (W Heinemann) ∧ with woodcuts

The foundation of English Prose  A.C.Ward.

To be struggling towards a higher but

unattainable conception is a mother

favourable intellectual condition that

to rest satisfied in a narrow portion

of accentuated face.

"Life is a comedy to those who think, 

a tragedy to those who feel" (Russ novel)

11 Sept (Sunday) Still off duty. Ticked
off by M.O. Write letter to Pat. The first.
Interesting chat Bob Sp. re condition.
1245 planes over.  Single &v double eng.
What a show. Irresponsibe R.A.A.F. (issued)
[Reduplicated first sound - diagnosis]
Seems as though I will hit hospital.
1700 - First reps Aust. arrive here & pde.

held. Catalinas over. Parade in sq.

and Brig Eastick & other speak. Capt

Jennings U.S. :- "This is a new experience

for me. It is worth many a 

hard fought battle & many hard fought

& long nights & days at sea. THis

is whay we have been fighting for

& we have succeeded".

Called you & on 6 hrs. notice to move.

Diary cover - see original document 

Australian

War Memorial
PR86/174 

Books - Animal Biology,  [[??]]
[[??]] - [[?]] [[Society?]] [[?]]
The [[??]] - [[C?]] [[(Longman? ?]] 

Pears Cyclopedia.  References.
Self Educator
Star Atlas.
Dictionary.
Word from England Tom Bridges
Works of Tennyson
Works of Kipling Blackjacket Books
Sixty poems by Kipling by Hodder & St

The collected verse of A.B. Patterson
Works of A.L. [[Go?]]
[[??]] Malay Grammer
Japanese Grammer
Poultry Farming in N.S.W. J Hadlington
{Teach Yourself Photography J. Bowler.}
British Journal of Photography.
N.S.W. Dept, Of Agric. Judging Cards.
Anson's Law of Contract Anson & Brierly
Daily Telegraph Miscellany.
Microbes by the Millions. Hugh Nicol.
([[P?]] Special on Soil Bacterioligy)
with good references given.
Man, Microbe & Malady
The [[??]]
The [[?]] print their [[manual?]] [[??]]
Oxford Companion to Eng Literature
[[??]]
[[?]] of [[?]] Literature
[[??]] History - [[?]]

The Geography behind History. G East ([[? & ?]])
JR Green Short History of the Eng people ([[?]])
Anthology of world [[?]]
The [[?]] of [[?]] [[??]]
The [[Temple?]] of Life [[? & ?]]
[[Australia?]] - [[??????]]
[[?????]] ([[?]])
[[??]]
Capt [[?]] RN [[DS Tranter?]]
[[??]] - [[???]]
[[?]] in [[?]]. [[?]] ([[?]])
Camping & Woodcraft. Horace Kephart. ([[?]] Publisher. NY)
Harold

Books - to [[?]] & read.
I got references. Gerald Kersch
[[?]] Esquire
[[??]] [[????]]
Forsyte Saga. J Galsworthy

 

Oct 15 Left [[?]] evening
[[??]]
 

Oct 15 Left [[?]] evening
18.
22
on wharf & marched to camp
Nov 2  

 

 

 

Dec 7. [[?]]
[[??]] health

 

Dec 8. Second anniversary of beginning
of war on C.E.A. Have had many

[[?]]

of school with Uncle Len.

Warm almost every day. Rainy

across here with [[?]]

Dec 9. News that mail is at camp

for us, but turns out only for 

E force Offs. News of day [[?]]

in 1942 the N.S.W. to undertake

travelling.

Dec 11 Wedding anniversary. Very quiet 

day. "P C Saving" presented and 

proves & great success.

Dec 25. Christmas Day Communion

at 0730 hrs. Bishop Hollis officiate 

Raining most of day. Concert

postponed. First [[??]] since

Sandakan. Tins of milk opened.

Morrocan [[?]] singing and nearly

causes riot. They [[?]] 

 

Dec 27 Rain [[?]] for awhile and

have concert unexpectedly in

afternoon. Very enjoyable 

 

 

1944
Jan 1. Fine dry day for a change,
[[?]]

Jan 5. [[?]] meeting of Lieut Seargent
they [[?]] before Meeting

boot with 

 

May 20. - First mail from home
received. Everything & everybody
seems it is ok.

 

Sunday 

June 11. Once again My birthday

keeping it very quietly have

not told anyone. Felling very

annoyed if mail & attitude [[?]]