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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.

  • 14 May 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by David on Wed, 2012-05-23 17:58
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Mon, 14 May 1945

    Yesterday evening the Protestants had thanksgiving service in the open, and Japs made a fuss and said permission must be asked for these things, but allowed it.

    Rumour of repatriation, And Okinawa gone to us.

    Visited Maria, Mrs Harris and Burgess in hospital. ((Barbara: This is Mrs Violet Harris, shown in Greg Leck's list as 33 yrs at end of camp. She and husband took 7 very young children into camp, and had their 8th child in Stanley.  I had connections with some of their children through plays I wrote.))

    Peggy and I played Iris Joyce and Gladys MacNider in evening, they won.

    Wrote two poems for children to recite in end of May celebration.

    Peggy and I, bridge with Kerslake & Allison, and we won +3!

    Then Peggy and I joined Dorothy Wilson, Sheila, Elsie and Gladys on a ledge overlooking the sea to finish the third anniversary of Elsie's reception into the Church. ((Barbara: Elsie Bidwell, whose husband Harold was already RC when they married.))

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  • 14 May 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2015-05-06 16:49
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Mon, 14 May 1945

    Overcast, dry & warm.

    Odd jobs.

    Photos to G.

    Lorry with nil 7pm.

    Water on.

    Rumour re repatriation again rears its head. Camp grown veg to be included in Jap ration despite their promise to the contrary.

    Lorry with nil 7pm. Paper has nothing worthwhile in it. Germans in East Asia under surveillance. ∴C

  • 14 May 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-05-03 16:45
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Mon, 14 May 1945

    Communal garden produce to be included in rations. Sale of articles in HK through I.R.C. stopped “for time being.”


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