Lovely warm day.
No news about the Monmouth and Good Hope. The Germans have destroyed the cable on Fanning Island*1, so news is difficult to get.
Yesterday I went to Tredown to see Mrs Cory. It is very remarkable the ignorance of the farmer class as regards the war & their apathy. Very different from the working classes or labourers wives.
This morning I did up 7 shirts which are to go to the 2nd Devons through Molly Holsworth. Various women in the parish have made them. In the evening, Mr Smith gave a lantern lecture on the war & its beginnings. There was a large audience. In the middle, I made an appeal for pillows for the Red X Linen League. We have endeavoured at this time 2000 & more wounded men in hospital, & more will be coming, entailing more hospitals & equipments. It does seem so difficult to get through everything, and now we have to make underclothing for the Belgian women.
Hi Sophia, I often read these diaries and find them so interesting. I wonder if the reason the farming community was more ignorant is because they must have been in reserved occupations? Later on I think even they had to enlist when more men were needed.
Hope all goes well.
Kind regards,
Alison