inequality, and suggested that we should find out about the injustices. Very good. zpn
Wednesday 17th
… 5ft 11 ½ inches, 10 stone almost [140 lbs.] … zpa
After tea I had works—mowing the Bay lawns again. No shirt, great fun. I enjoy hard physical labour if it don’t last too long and I need not wear a shirt … No letter from Mommy yet this week. zsu zem
Friday 19th
V good JTC parade—I was one of 20 paratroopers defending the Bay [Hotel] yard from the rest of the Senior Coy. and no. 5 [platoon]. A short, very fierce battle, bangs all round and charges over tin roofs. We built barricades everywhere. I grenaded 2 people, and then came up a wall and saw a rifle sticking out of the gun store. I pulled this out, and killed two enemy by unspecified means at close range. I was given dead. Terrific muddle, few survivors. D on the other side, managed to kill two of his own side. zct zlb zwp zma
News—We’ve swept back (or rather been swept back) to the Egyptian frontier, leaving a garrison at Tobruk. zwf zlb
Sevastopol still holds—just. zru zlb
Sunday 21st
… News is bloody, I think Sevastopol may well fall, despite hellish fighting costing the Germans 3,000 men a day, and beside this they’ve pierced Tobruk’s perimeter and have occupied much of the inside. I zru zlb zwc zwf
