{"id":2129,"date":"2013-08-06T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2016-05-19T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T09:40:16","slug":"war-letters-borneo-4-6-aug-1945-beaufort-an-overnight-visit-to-papar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"War Letters – Borneo: 4-6 Aug 1945, Beaufort; An overnight visit to Papar"},"content":{"rendered":"
W. E. Pidgeon<\/h6>\n
c\/o Public Relations<\/h6>\n
1 Aust Corps<\/h6>\n
Sat. 4 August [1945]<\/h6>\n
(Beaufort)<\/h6>\n

 <\/p>\n

Darling,<\/p>\n

I have just received your letter dated the first night you spent at Bright .\u00a0 It was a great treat to hear all about the doings of yourself & Bub.\u00a0 I mean, young Master Graham.\u00a0 You tell that silly young galoot to stay putting on weight till dadda comes home – and for you,\u00a0 my girl forget not the dangers of gross eating at your\u00a0 mother’s place because I would like to see you wearing pyjamas and the top that the Chinese affect in these parts.\u00a0 Many of the women are smooth and pleasant in the features and they do their hair into beautiful slick plaits and buns.\u00a0 Their clothes are always immaculately laundered and are cut to a close fitting finish.\u00a0 The whole ensemble of colour, sleekness and daintiness of figure gives to them an almost doll like quality and frugility.<\/p>\n

I have been trying to get one of those straw hats like<\/p>\n

\"Image15\"but am meeting with no success as they seem to be made only for personal use and in any case I am stuck for means of transport to where I might pick one up.\u00a0 There is actually nothing about – one has to realise that 3 weeks or so ago this area was still in Japanese hands and that the RAAF have blown all the shopping areas to bits in all the places I have been to.\u00a0 Naturally all the saleable commodities went with the wind as well.<\/p>\n

Thanks to your old man\u2019s snooping habits and mechanical genius he has the pleasure to be able to write this letter in solitary silence.<\/p>\n

This morning I found under the house a crate full of old and rusted Japanese lamps – with a great deal of fossicking I managed to find a couple of poor things, the wicks of which I could just get to move – mostly downward.\u00a0 Only one is functioning at the moment and is giving out every bit of 2 candle power.\u00a0 It is a queer doover shaped so<\/p>\n

\"Image16\"you put the kerosene if you can get any in here.<\/p>\n

The whole caboosal measures only 8″ x 6 ” and is extremely temperamental,\u00a0 Two of them have already given up the ghost – the wicks disappearing in the depths of the oil.\u00a0 Because of\u00a0 the grievous shortage of kerosene I cannot call on any of the reserves I have planted by my side.\u00a0 Any smudges or runnings of oils you may discern on this page are to be accounted for by the leakings in the roof.\u00a0 It has been raining for 5 minutes and already one side of this table is sporting a pool of water which is poppily dripping from the broken shingles above.\u00a0 One earnest blob has just fractured the hot lamp glass.<\/p>\n

I’m afraid this is the finish of this letter tonight.\u00a0 The tide is sweeping over the table at an alarming rate.\u00a0 To bed, my dear, to bed – and safety.\u00a0 Goodnight.\u00a0 It’s coming down in bloody sheets.<\/p>\n

Monday 6th<\/sup> August. 5pm.<\/p>\n

Am at a place by the name of Papar which has the pleasure of a complete blackout at night.\u00a0 Hence this hurried scrawl as I have to bathe and eat before I settle down for a dreary night.\u00a0 I’m damned if I can sleep after 3.30 am I get to bed too early.\u00a0 It is not light till 7.00 so I pass some pretty dull hours – their only enlivenment being thoughts of you and Graham.\u00a0 It is raining again – everyday for that matter.\u00a0 This place is on the perimeter and is about 30 miles by jeep train from Beaufort.\u00a0 I came up this morning – took about 4 hours.\u00a0 It is a much more pleasant place than Beaufort.\u00a0 Coming into this area we travelled through some nice open country,\u00a0 paddy fields on either side were dotted with thatched huts, natives using water buffalo to pull their ploughs, and in the distance the foothills & blue mountains cut across by low lying clouds.\u00a0 The Japs are over there.\u00a0 Flanking the railway line the swampy channels are covered with water hyacinths like we have at home and all carry a profusion of purple blooms.\u00a0 The whole landscape is a harmony of white, blue, green & lilac.\u00a0 Very good.\u00a0 Climate is fairly cool but I’m sure it is more an illusion than anything else – as I sweat just as much.<\/p>\n

Have just had tea and things are lightening up a bit – I find that the approaching darkness was due more to the storm than to the time of the day.\u00a0 The thunder was a terrific accompanyment to the deluge which has just finished and has left the whole of the vivid greens in sight floating on pools of yellow muddy water.\u00a0 Under this light the leaves and grass are an intense green, the green that car headlights sometimes show up.\u00a0 This is a hell of a fertile country.<\/p>\n

I will be returning to Beaufort tomorrow & Wednesday to Labuan from where I hope to get to Balik Papan within a few days.\u00a0 I shall probably spend a week there & then think of returning home which will, with transport holdups, take a week or longer.\u00a0 I am not particularly sanguine about my chances of getting back by the 24th<\/sup>.\u00a0 But will make every effort to do so.\u00a0 Whacko the anniversary!\u00a0 We’ll let the young man have his second champagne – that is if you haven’t scoffed it all yet.\u00a0 I will certainly be back for your birthday.<\/p>\n

Lots of love to you, Graham & Mum from the travel bound<\/p>\n

Willie<\/p>\n

\"[Jeep<\/a>
Jeep train at Beaufort, Borneo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jeep<\/a>
Jeep Train – The retreating Japanese had blown up all the steam locomotives so the Army modified Jeeps to haul the wagons and flatbeds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"24<\/a>
Jeep train study<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Train<\/a>
Train station at\u00a0Beaufort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Train<\/a>
Train station at\u00a0Beaufort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Train<\/a>
Train station at Beaufort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Train<\/a>
Train station at Papar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Church<\/a>
Church of the Holy Rosary, Papar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Possibly<\/a>
Possibly at Jesselton on the Jesselton to Papar line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Jeep train runs through rubber tree plantations which at times form an arch overhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"21<\/a><\/p>\n

[Note: Wep’s return to Beaufort coincided with the\u00a0Childrens’ Carnival held on August 8, 1945; organised by members of the 2\/43rd Australian Infantry Battalion. \u00a0Wep described the carnival in a story he wrote for the Women’s Weekly, (1945 ‘Soldiers in North talk and dream of home.’,\u00a0The Australian Women’s Weekly\u00a0<\/i>(1933 – 1982), 8 September, p. 17, viewed 16 May, 2013, http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article47246573<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

“At Beaufort the army put on a carnival day for the children of the district. The natives swarmed in by train, in boxcars and flat-tops. They squatted and huddled together tight as a bunch of grapes and quietly soaked in the drenching rain. In the boxcars native orchestras \u201cgave out\u201d and were \u201cin the groove\u201d in several different tunes. The penetrating boom of the gongs and the light melodic harmony of the gamelins (a xylophonic saucepan affair) burrowed through the dusk and rain. It was a great day for Beaufort. The children laughed at the soldiers and the soldiers laughed at the natives. Pillow fights and obstacle races, lolly-water and fireworks, Malay dances and Chinese singing, jeep rides, speeches and fraternisation, Miss Beaufort competition and ceremonial tea drinking \u2013 it was all there. British administrators considered with gloomy foreboding the Australian \u201cspoiling of the native\u201d. At 11.30 p.m. they straggled home \u2013 grandpas, grandmas, dads, and mums with sleeping kids swung in \u201ccuddle seats\u201d made of gaily coloured scarves.”]<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival held on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival held on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival held on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival held on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival held on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A gamelin being played<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
A gamelin being played at the Beaufort Children’s Carnival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scenes<\/a>
Scenes around Beaufort at the Children’s Carnival on August 8, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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