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W.E. Pidgeon<\/p>\n

Morotai<\/p>\n

Tuesday morning,\u00a015th<\/sup> July 45\u00a0[17 Jul 1945]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dear Jess,<\/p>\n

You might be pleased to see that I have got this far without bother.\u00a0 We landed here about 3 pm yesterday after flying since dawn.\u00a0 Capt. Mark Miller & I had a few beers before lunch at the Townsville Officer’s Club on Saturday.\u00a0 It was over these beers that I came to remark that I had met Rod through the instrumentality of Grace Bowers.\u00a0 Talking along in a generalised way we came to mention Alsatians of which he has two.\u00a0 I then remarked that during a period of requited love I had also bought a hound to help me & my bruised heart.\u00a0 Said that I used to take said hound down to Bondi.\u00a0 He said he remembered the green Chrysler the dog and the attractive girl.\u00a0 Complement to you my treasure, for he didn’t know then that I later swept you off your feet.<\/p>\n

We retired to the bedroom after lunch & he produced a bottle of Scotch & we proceeded to give it a gentle nudge.\u00a0 Just sufficient for him to be opened up on the divorce case.\u00a0 Apparently his wife did her block completely over Alexander & had no compunction about leaving her two young boys for his sake.\u00a0 Miller says that Alexander was considerably cooler in his approach to her.\u00a0 What I mean is that he had no intentions of anything but a good time.\u00a0 Miller reckons that the costs were about \u00a39,800 of which he seems to think that he will be let in for his wife’s share – about \u00a34,000.\u00a0 Miller seems an amiable enough fellow to me.\u00a0 A big man – & rather like Frank Packer to look at.\u00a0 Not intellectual but with plenty of intelligence towards the practical side of life.\u00a0 He began as a private & is now a Capt. Has done 5 years in the army is extremely proud of his kids & was so of his wife.\u00a0 His importance to us lies in the fact that he controls the British Brewery end of Miller’s interests.\u00a0 We got along very well.<\/p>\n

We left Townsville as you know on Sunday morning & spent the night at Merauke on the southern side of Dutch New Guinea.\u00a0 As we arrived at dusk & left at dawn I can’t tell you what the place looked like.\u00a0 Coming over the ranges in New Guinea the pilot had to take the plane to 20000 ft.\u00a0 Boy was it cold!\u00a0 Ice was flying off the propellers & in places you could scratch frost off the inside of the plane.\u00a0 The oxygen apparatus wasn’t working for the interior of the plane.\u00a0 It is amazing how short of breath you become.\u00a0 You gasp like a blinking fish out of water.\u00a0 Your knees sag if you stand.\u00a0 I thought a 1\/4 lb. block of chocolate would provide me with some energy but it only made me sick.\u00a0 I felt lousy.\u00a0 Picked up a bit on the way down to Biak where we refueled & took off on the 4 hours flight to this island.\u00a0 The weather was stinking & we flew at 600 ft through squalls & rain nearly all the way.\u00a0 There’ll be another hop like that to Tarakan in a day or so.\u00a0 It is raining here and is pretty cool.\u00a0 The cold weather has followed me all the way.\u00a0 This camp is one of the best – or I should say the best I have been in.\u00a0 Being a headquarters sought of do one might expect this to be so.\u00a0 Banana palms all in between the tents, good food & 2 bottles of beer a week.\u00a0 Not many cigarettes which are also rationed.\u00a0 I wish I had brought my old boots these are taking time breaking in.\u00a0 My feet feel rather like those of gouty diver.\u00a0 My elegant apparel is, I am a sure a joy to behold.\u00a0 As everybody here seems to have clothes of their own there is no occasion to into sharing my pants and my shirt.\u00a0 Damn the rain too.\u00a0 It makes much mud to stick to the corny foot!<\/p>\n

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I’m sick of sitting around so I’ll take a walk – corns, snuffles, out of focus eye, rain and all!\u00a0 Come what may!\u00a0 It shall scatter the cobwebs which spread a dusty net across my thoughts.<\/p>\n

In the course of my work the very obliging Captain who runs this here part of the doings took me over to the O.M. store where I trade my wretched Vic. Barracks sack cloths for a shirt which fits & a pair of beautiful eau-de-ville pants with herringbone pattern.\u00a0 They are the same size but look considerably daintier & command much approval from my aesthetic eye.\u00a0 The general effect is now rather sweet than otherwise.<\/p>\n

Soon it will be time for me totter over for the morning cuppa.\u00a0 Before breakfast the Batman arrives with hot coffee & hot water for the shave.\u00a0 What’s this for roughing it.<\/p>\n

I have taken up the profuse sweating where I left it off in January last.<\/p>\n

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Well, lots of love to you & that young man.\u00a0 Will write in all probability again from here before I leave for Balik Papan.<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Bill<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is supplementary news, or lack of it<\/p>\n

Afternoon about 3 pm<\/p>\n

Have had lunch out – with Major Cheong who runs the army newspaper and who is the chappie that drove me down from Atherton to Townsville.\u00a0 The weather at the moment is really wonderful & it finds your old man seated before his tent, basking semi nude in the sun – & sweating merrily whilst a nice cool breeze from the sea just a hundred yards off makes gentle passes at his back.\u00a0 Bananas to the left, bananas to the right, vines, ferns, paw paws & trees just behind the canvass – this is the real tropic life.\u00a0 A bird squeaks intermittently and some sort of droning insect keeps forever on a high pitched drone.\u00a0 What a life!\u00a0 Have been down on the strip but none of the crowd I met in January remain on the island.\u00a0 I dare say I shall contact them at Tarakan.\u00a0 Heard all the latest on “Tige’s ” bag snatching husband.\u00a0 Appears he was the menace of the north.\u00a0 Brace and bitted his eyes into every bedroom within sight.\u00a0 Acquired no end of valuable commodities and generally behaved like a very queer duck.\u00a0 It seems that it is just as well that we never invited him home.\u00a0 We may not have had much left by now.\u00a0 Am waiting on afternoon tea.\u00a0 I find it is on – farewell me while I eat.\u00a0 The tea arrives.\u00a0 This is a blessing as I am getting really too hot out in the sun.\u00a0 Must have lost a pound at least today.\u00a0 Am feeling better now than I have done for weeks so cheer up when considering my health.\u00a0 Lots of love again & will write again soon, very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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