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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.

  • 11 Oct 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-11-20 21:33
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 11 Oct 1944

    and 5 yrs married today. Wrote my card to Marj.

    Cookhouse construction & wood chopping.

    Lorry in 4.20 pm with veg. No paper.

    With Steve pm.

    Formosan guard tells of US invasion of the Phillipines.

    Fine & warm E wind.

    I hope that I can look back to this entry next year 11th Oct in the presence of my wife & little daughter.

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  • 11 Oct 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2016-09-19 17:46
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 11 Oct 1944

    Mrs. Cryan comes to see Franklin Gimson this morning. She complains that she left a pair of shorts to dry on a line, and on her return she found they'd been thrown into a corner with the zip fastener and the area around it cut out.

    No-one has any idea who was the culprit, but Gimson feels that the crime is a symptom of the current 'extraordinarily low morale' of the camp. He has been warning about the deterioration of morale, and this is proof - albeit in an unexpected form - that he was right.

    Source:

    Franklin Gimson, Diary, Weston Library Oxford, p. 103 (verso)


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