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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.

  • 15 Jan 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2012-03-31 18:33
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sat, 15 Jan 1944

    Went to hosp. early - Mabel in cock-eyed bed with wooden poles across the top, and her left leg extended and held taut with a dangling flat-iron.  That day Dr Myasaka visited the hospital, but though requests were made, nothing was done about x-ray then. ((Her spine was broken but we didn't know it then.)) She had fractured heel, rib probably cracked, and fractured left wrist.

    I started to learn German from Mr R. Lederhofer.

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  • 15 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-30 16:59
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 15 Jan 1944

    Fine, mild.

    Cleaned rm, bthrm & kitchen.

    4Pkts Cigs.

    Jap Dr. around the Camp.

    With Steve pm.

    Black-out.

    (5 more Es ex. in town. Gingles, Chester-Woods, Pascoe, Da Silva & Soares?)

    ((I guess he's noting a rumour that a further five people had been executed. Who is he referring to?

    • Gingles: E F Gingle. He had been interned at Stanley Camp initially, but had later been allowed to live in the city.
    • Chester-Woods: John Black's list shows a W R Chester-Woods interned in Stanley, but from Jones' comments it looks as though he had moved out of camp as well.
    • Pascoe: Possibly Boris Pasco, who has been arrested by the Japanese at one point.
    • Da Silva: Probably Marcus da Silva, who had smuggled money into Stanley.
    • Soares: I'm not sure who this could be. Brian suggests "Soares might have been F. X. Soares, a banker who was certainly involved in some resistance activity but managed to escape to Macao before being caught." See http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/edward-gingle-at-war/))

  • 15 Jan 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2017-01-19 16:15
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sat, 15 Jan 1944

    Heath

    B.O.


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