Wednesday was the school children’s tea which went as well as usual but much fewer children. Mr Moore was Father Christmas, Elizabeth noticed his hands weren’t old.

To day is a day of special prayers service at 5.30 & 7 o’clock with muffled peal just before 7. Two Austrian destroyers sunk in the Adriatic.

Somehow there was a feeling of cheerfulness & hope in the air on this last day of this year 1915.