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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.

  • 17 Feb 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2011-12-31 21:44
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 17 Feb 1942

    Back on Trench. Cold & drizzly. Porridge $4.50 Toffee $4.50 Canteen started to run.

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  • 17 Feb 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-01-09 10:02
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 17 Feb 1942

    Concert at St Stephens.  Wasn't much.  First we had to have a picture show by our hosts  Singapore has apparently surrendered.  ((Film show was supposed to be in celebration, mainly a kind of Jap documentary.  A few shots of bottles of beer going along the assemby line - there were nostalgic cheers from the men in the audience at the sight.))

    Mum got peas in the canteen.


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