Description
Object description
Ms pocket diary kept between January and December 1942 and ms diary (111p) written on pages inserted in a bible from June 1942 to April 1945 together with a ts transcript (113pp) of the two diaries, covering her internment at camps in Palembang (from March 1942) and at Muntok on Bangka Island off the coast of Sumatra (from October 1944), following her capture in February 1942 on Bangka Island, after she had been evacuated there from Malaya where she had been serving as a nurse with the Medical Auxiliary Service. The diary entries contain brief details of her activities, events in the camps, the food shortages and illnesses, including a major epidemic in 1944, all of which took a heavy toll on her health, while they also reflect her occasionally difficult relationships with the other internees, particularly after she was made a 'captain' of her block (April 1944) and her desperation to return to a normal life with her husband; together with a moving letter from one of her friends in the camp informing Mrs Jennings' husband, Captain Cyril Oswald Jennings, Royal Engineers, of her death in May 1945, a booklet entitled 'Poems from a prison camp' containing poems written by her during her internment.
Content description
Ms pocket diary kept between January and December 1942 and ms diary (111p) written on pages inserted in a bible from June 1942 to April 1945 together with a ts transcript (113pp) of the two diaries, covering her internment at camps in Palembang (from March 1942) and at Muntok on Bangka Island off the coast of Sumatra (from October 1944), following her capture in February 1942 on Bangka Island, after she had been evacuated there from Malaya where she had been serving as a nurse with the Medical Auxiliary Service. The diary entries contain brief details of her activities, events in the camps, the food shortages and illnesses, including a major epidemic in 1944, all of which took a heavy toll on her health, while they also reflect her occasionally difficult relationships with the other internees, particularly after she was made a 'captain' of her block (April 1944) and her desperation to return to a normal life with her husband; together with a moving letter from one of her friends in the camp informing Mrs Jennings' husband, Captain Cyril Oswald Jennings, Royal Engineers, of her death in May 1945, a booklet entitled 'Poems from a prison camp' containing poems written by her during her internment.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1982