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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.

  • 18 Dec 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-04-16 18:28
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Mon, 18 Dec 1944

    We (RC young ladies) gave Marie Barton a shower in honour of her engagement to Vincent Marcus Morrison (HK Police, who, with Randall, Bidmead and Fay had escaped from Stanley in 1942, but were caught and put in Stanley Gaol; released back into camp this June.)   ((Marie and Vincent eventually had a very large family; when in 1963 my eldest son went to Winslade School, Clyst St Mary in Exeter as a weekly boarder,  we found that one of the Morrison boys, Peter, was also a pupil there. There were many other Morrisons then - Michael, Anthony, Frances, Bernadette, Margaret, and Angela   The family lived in Sidmouth.))

    That night I wrote most of 'A child's Christmas'. ((A nostalgic memory of Christmas as a child in UK too long to include here))

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  • 18 Dec 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-12-22 11:28
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Mon, 18 Dec 1944

    Many Happy Returns Marj darling.

    Cold but bright.

    Red earth & brick for Cookhouse wall.

    Made another chatty for Mrs Winfield. [Entry for 15th is clearly ‘Whitfield’]

    Lorry in with Canteen gear.

    Cooking being done with grass.

    US forces land on Mindora Island [Mindoro?] & enter Ormoc in Leyte.

    Cooking oil in town costs Y116 per catty & rice 19-50.

  • 18 Dec 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2016-12-09 10:33
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 18 Dec 1944

    Issue Y12.50

    Wong tong residue ((spelling?)) Y11.88

    Soy sauce 


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