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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 Mar 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-03-05 23:47
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 17 Mar 1944

    Heavy low clouds & rain. Warmer.

    Ground bread rice & carried food.

    No news no rumours.

    Choir practice 6.30pm.

    “A Bill of Divorcement” at St Stephen’s.

    Some letters arrived from Canadian repatriates.

    Kids–3 8ozs. 5-9 10ozs. General 13oz. Light Labour 17oz. H.L. 20ozs. ((These look like rations, graded according to the size / workload of the recipient. Does anyone know what was being measured? eg is it the total weight of food per day, or ...?

    Barbara Anslow thinks they're "the number of ounces of rice and or food given".))

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  • 17 Mar 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by David on Sun, 2017-03-05 17:27
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 17 Mar 1944

    “A Bill of Divorcement” ((see 16th for details))

    Rec’d letter from Dorothy Salmon (Tei-A Maru) 


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