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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.

  • 10 Nov 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-03-05 18:11
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Tue, 10 Nov 1942

    Standing in the cupboard is an aquarium jar two-thirds full of date and ginger jam - looks lovely.  The parcel chocolate, although plain, tastes so milky that it's almost incredible to think there is something better, i.e. milk chocolate.

    Had a spoonful of Nestles Milk - absolute heaven!

    Washed my hair in cold water, because Mr Allison wouldn't give me any hot water. ((Mr A presided all day long  over a couple of household electric water boilers in the Married Q.  There was always a queue for hot water for tea or whatever.  This morning he told the us the water hadn't quite boiled,   so I said could I have my ration as I didn't need boiling water for washing my hair, but he said I couldn't have water for hair-washing.))

    Went visiting for choir members. Betty Aslett says she will come if we have Latin classes.

    In evening, to Dr. I. Newton's 'Glimpses into Surgical History' about asepsis.

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  • 10 Nov 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-10-31 22:16
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 10 Nov 1942

    190,000 Pris’s captured in Lybia. U.S.troops enter Algeria. Burma air attacks unmolested. Russia OK. Jap naval remains left Solomon area.

    34 P of W. got away from Kai Tak by aid of guerillas.

    Wilcocks & special assignment. ((Is that J L Willcocks, Commissioner of Prisons, or C Willcox, a policeman, or A C Wilcox, an accountant? The special assignment may be explained by tomorrow's diary entry: "Broke out & went to look for revolver"))

    ((G.))

  • 10 Nov 1942, Roland H J Brooks' War Diary - Stanley Internment Camp WWII

    Submitted by Suziepie on Sun, 2014-07-06 09:52
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    Roland H J Brooks' War Diary - Stanley Internment Camp WWII
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 10 Nov 1942

    Received first IRC parcel


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