Diary extracts for August 1944

8th Aug 1944:

Crispin has chicken pox!

20th Aug 1944:

Went on board HMS Vanquisher for the night. All very matey and pleasant. A lot of conversation.

21st Aug 1944:

Went out in ship’s motor boat to look at the ship with a view to painting her for her captain.

23rd Aug 1944:

Paris liberated

. . . all Frenchmen must be feeling grand, particularly as they themselves have achieved it and are doing wonders in their uprising all over France.