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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.

  • 12 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-12-18 16:35
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 12 Nov 1944

    Colder. SW wind, cloudy pm.

    Water & wood.

    North’s notes contain more details of Stalin’s speech. Germany & Japan are certainly due for their deserts after the war is cleared up.

    No lorry.

    District Chairmen etc received overcoats from Col Takanada.

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  • 12 Nov 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-11-27 14:18
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 12 Nov 1944

    Remembrance Sunday

    Short / Alton

    overcoats (presented by Takanada) to Gimson, Sandbach, Thomas, Pritchard ((I'm not sure which Thomas or Pritchard he is referring to))

  • 12 Nov 1944, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

    Submitted by Alison Gerrard on Sun, 2020-06-14 16:38
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    Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 12 Nov 1944

    Thanks a whole lot for your loving letter of 21st August 1943, in which you tell me of having received my letter of July 1942, letters take a long time to deliver but actually we are all grateful and thankful to receive them at all.

    Japan boasts of her prosperity in the Far East and how trade is better and conditions more beneficial to the natives than ever before under British rule. Well the Chinese will be glad to see us back again I assume.

    The news continues to be good with the landing in the Philippines, Roosevelt's reelection and Stalin's speech about Japan being the aggressor nation. Well that's let the Japs know where they stand vis a vis Russia.

    Glad to say that I am keeping well and fit and have got my appetite. Prof. Digby is going to remove the tag from my bottom on Wednesday giving me a local. This tag is caused buy one of the internal haemorrhoids having created a small roll on the outside. It shouldn't be very much and all being well I should be out of hospital by the end of next week. My weight has gone down considerably being now only 140 lbs. However I'll make it up.

    The water has now been cut off completely so that we have neither light or water.


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