| Description | Typed transcript of pp.1-25 of Belgrave's diary for 1 January to 30 March 1943. Topics covered include a visit from an ordnance staff sergeant to advise on equipment (5 January), visits to the cinema (5, 28 January, 8, 25 February, 4 March), painting and sketching (26 January, 19 March), new aerodrome at Muharraq (1 February), dinner and films with Bertram Thomas (18 February), school of whales mistaken for a submarine (4, 6 March), difficult condition in Bahrain with hunger, unemployment and rising crime (10 March), departure of Claude de Grenier, the 'DC' or Director of Customs since 1929 (21 March), |