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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.

  • 19 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-12-18 16:41
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sun, 19 Nov 1944

    Practice attack on H.Qs early am woke everyone up with the Japs yelling & bawling.

    Fine, NE wind, woodchopping & trench digging.

    Saw Steve noon with bit of firewood, coffee & cigs.

    Water on, bathed & cleaned up aft.

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  • 19 Nov 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-11-27 14:24
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 19 Nov 1944

    Wittenbach / Sewell

    Bowls pairs final – Gellatloy & Collyer beat W.Word & T.Pile 27-21. ((There are three "W Ward" listed in John Black's list, so I guess that "W. Word is one of them.))

  • 19 Nov 1944, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

    Submitted by Alison Gerrard on Sun, 2020-09-06 17:44
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    Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 19 Nov 1944

    Still in hospital and not doing as well as I had hoped. My waterworks have gone back on me with the passing of urine like red hot needles in other words there is a lot of albumen in my urine and so I have been put on to streptocide again every four hours night and day. This streptocide or sulphathiozole is the cure for many ills but leaving one very muzzy, palpitation, funny in the tummy and the head like as if trains were passing through' and shutters being pulled down. The Professor has not yet snipped the tag off my bottom, but I hope I'll be all right soon and get out of hospital by say the end of this month.

    Nimitz and Fraser may be here very soon so I'll have to be ready, in any case I want to be back to my job in the Block. Conditions are very bad in the camp with the water supply being off for two days and only on for one day, no electric light, salt sprats, poor vegetables everyone undernourished and suffering from malnutrition, the place is swarming with flies and mosquitoes.

    My weight last Friday was 142 lbs. The milk powder from the Canadian Red Cross parcels and egg yolk from the Canadians are life savers. Canteen prices are terribly high with egg yolk 5.50 Yen per 1/2lb, wong tong 6.35 Yen per 1/2lb, salt bran etc. also very high.

    It is generally speaking a sad state of affairs and if Japan thinks they are still a first rate power the Lord help them, they are now losing their captured territory bit by bit and we hope it will be our turn to be relieved very soon.


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