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Includes: editorial matters; music round the camps; official reports from the camps; (two pages missing); letters; how they help funds (fund raising at home); fun and games; news from the far east; parcel points; knitting pattern for 'waistcoat for…

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He has received a letter from his mother. He has left the camp at Prato for a new camp. They are having a concert that night. It is much colder and there is snow in the mountains.

He writes he is settled in his new camp but there is a cigarette shortage. He asks for some to be sent. Weather is good but cold in the mornings. There is a library, board games, concerts, lectures and sports.

He writes the weather is good. He has received many letter from home. Cigarette situation is bad.

He asks for silk for embroidery work. He asks again for cigarettes.

He writes that he is well asks Minnie for a pullover. The library is thriving but they are short of cigarettes, still. He asks for two black ties.

He writes he is well but the weather is very cold. Her parcel has not arrived. Mail is very irregular. He asks for family photographs.

He repeats his request for family photographs and cigarettes.

Still no parcel but he has received letters. They are having a concert at Christmas and a dance at new year. Heavy snow for three days.

He has been moved to a camp at Sulmona, near Rome. He asks for a fountain pen.

He has been receiving mail from his mother. His Christmas dinner was 'fairly good'. They have had a blizzard for a few days.

The diary starts with a letter stating that Les is missing and believed killed. In reality he had become a prisoner of war. It is subtitled 'Diary June 3rd 1941 to Nov 6th 1943 Life as a POW'

He is moving to a new camp at Sulmona. He has received five letters so far. He asks for a fountain pen.