Grandad’s WWII Diary – Monday April 7th & Tuesday April 8th 1941

Posted by The Sock Mistress ⋅ March 4, 2014 ⋅ 2 Comments

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Click here for diary entry for Sunday April 6 1941

Monday April 7^th 1941

2^nd Day

Rained all morning. Troops came right through the morning. Great crowd down to see us away. Rangitieri and Taranaki gave us a great send off. Nieuw Amsterdam pulled out at 12.15am. Mauretania left 15 minutes later. Stayed in stream for hours.

Left later with 3 escorts :-

Hobart, Canberra, Achilles

Tuesday April 8^th 1941

3^rd Day

Had a rough night most of the boys are rather sick. Was put on guard duty for 8 hours. Can pick up the escorts quite easily. Nieuw Amsterdam on our port side. 3 escorts right in front of us.

Put clock back one hour. Boys are rather quiet – thinking about when next with they see New Zealand.

Click here for diary entry for Wednesday April 9th & Thursday April 10th

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