3rd NOVEMBER 1942

Some of the lads, hope you can find me. November 1942

My day off today so doing plenty of writing to wife.

This is a grim place, at night we have a chat over the hurricane lamp if we can get one.  We play cards if we have any money.

Cannot get drunk as we are only allowed three bottles of beer a month!  

The jailbirds

I often watch the HIGH TIDES as they are only about thirty yards away in the same billets as us.  Some of them have not seen home for seven years.