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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 Feb 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-05-02 14:30
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Thu, 1 Feb 1945

    After work, to beach with Clifton & Mabel to get salt water, then German lesson, and rehearsal, then shorthand with Mrs. G. Goddard.

    My watch went ((for valuation and sale through Black Market)) - marker received.

    To lecture on 'Murder'.

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  • 1 Feb 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2014-04-08 02:37
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Thu, 1 Feb 1945

    L. A. Collyer, head attendant at the Mental Hospital before the war, admires the work of the nurses but is in cynical mood:

    All of the Civilian, Army & Navy Sisters & The Volunteer Nursing Services have done marvellous work, both during and after the war, & some of them paid heavily. The work the Sisters have done in the Camp Hospital certainly deserves recognition, and thus makes me doubt very much that they will get it, more likely it will be ignored. But I don't think there's a man in the Camp who doesn't feel the same.

    Collyer goes on to note that some of the Eurasians are also deserving of sympathy: they weren't allowed to take part in  the 1940 evacuation, 'but the Govt. were pleased to make use of their husbands, etc. during the war.

    Source:

    Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, entry for today

  • 01 Feb 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-01-23 12:49
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Thu, 1 Feb 1945

    Overcast, wind dropped.

    Workshop, odd jobs.

    Weather beautiful aft. onwards.

    Lorry with veg & fish 5.30pm.

    Planes & “thumps” heard but no A/r warnings.


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