Description
Object description
Ms diary (146pp, June 1940 - January 1944) written while living at Sanderstead, Surrey, and working as a law court shorthand writer, principally in London, in which he notes down the political developments, events and progress of the war on all fronts, occasionally giving his own strongly patriotic, pro-Churchill/Stalin views and describing life at home and in London during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, including details of the manner in which people coped with the disruption, air raids and consequent problems. He is heavily critical of the French (for surrendering), the pre-war appeasement politicians, the Civil Service and occasionally Parliament. He also describes his own training and service with the Local Defence Volunteers/Home Guard. The diary is written consistently as a letter of information for his own son, Cyril George King, a prisoner of war captured at Dunkirk.
Content description
Ms diary (146pp, June 1940 - January 1944) written while living at Sanderstead, Surrey, and working as a law court shorthand writer, principally in London, in which he notes down the political developments, events and progress of the war on all fronts, occasionally giving his own strongly patriotic, pro-Churchill/Stalin views and describing life at home and in London during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, including details of the manner in which people coped with the disruption, air raids and consequent problems. He is heavily critical of the French (for surrendering), the pre-war appeasement politicians, the Civil Service and occasionally Parliament. He also describes his own training and service with the Local Defence Volunteers/Home Guard. The diary is written consistently as a letter of information for his own son, Cyril George King, a prisoner of war captured at Dunkirk.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1985-11-19