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70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.

  • 1 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-30 16:15
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jan 1944

    Dull & drizzly.

    Everyone happy & optimistic re our chances of being happier this year.

    Change of administration to be made.

    With Steve pm. 

    Plenty congee today.

    Some news to come re repatriation & new Camp conditions?

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  • 1 Jan 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2014-01-02 21:05
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jan 1944

    Stanley Camp becomes The Military Internment Camp. But the Japanese military will not take full control for some time, and when it does the internees will not be treated as POWS, which seems to be what some worried relatives back in the UK fear when they get to hear of the new name.

     

    Franklin Gimson likes the camp production of Laburnum Grove, noting in his diary that it contains 'more decent humour than is usually to be found in modern drama'.

    Source:

    Franklin Gimson, Internment in Hong-Kong March 1942- August 1945, 43

  • 1 Jan 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-05-05 16:38
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    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jan 1944

    ((Following text not dated:))

    Very quiet New Year's Eve and later Chinese New Year.

    Getting dozen tomatoes daily from garden but small and family complain make throat sore.

    Electricity supply to be restricted to 8 to 12 p.m.

    To Kotewall for long session. Paid and gave me coffee.

  • 01 Jan 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2017-01-19 16:10
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jan 1944

    Camp became Military Internment Camps. HK (C.C. Hattori; D.C.C. Meijima. Rep. of Internees – Gimson)

  • 01 Jan 1944, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

    Submitted by Alison Gerrard on Sat, 2019-04-27 14:25
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    Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jan 1944

    The start of another year and still here, but we are more hopeful of release than we have ever been. We are moving rapidly on all fronts and this we gather from the meagre news that is in the daily rag and reading between the lines sort of thing. At any rate we feel more confident that our day of freedom is not so far distant now.

    The chow put on by the kitchen was quite good considering the small and poor rations we get, however to supplement we made another pie of corn mutton and vegetables and has helped to fill the empty places.

    I received three small parcels from Lo Fung I, Lam Chang Wei and Mei Lee Ironworks and these were very acceptable and helped to replenish our impoverished stocks. There is still no further news of repatriation, but continue to hope.


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