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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.

  • 2 Aug 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2012-05-26 16:42
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Thu, 2 Aug 1945

    Mrs Dorothy Fyffe gave talk to St Agnes club in our room.    Saw her polished show some months back, when she stepped into the breach at about 2 days' notice.   She went on music halls with her elder sister when she was 15, and travelled through Europe, appearing at Folies Bergere, and in Royal Command Performance in 1938, and before the King and Queen when they visited France in 1939, when Maurice Chevalier was also on the latter bill and was largely responsible for sending the sisters to Rio de Janeiro. At the time Tyrone Power and Annabella were there. At Royal Command Performance, Gracie Fields was the big attraction. Dorothy was also with Bertram Mills' circus for some time. ((Dorothy had a daughter Elisabeth, born in camp in July 1942)).

    There's to be draw from Welfare - 73 tins of salmon and jam between 2,500 people!

    All 'refugees' except Bungalow A's allowed back to blocks after 9 days in temporary billets.

    Rumour of 3 food/evacuation ships.  Also rumour that some peace points accepted by Japs, etc.

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  • 02 Aug 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 17:28
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Thu, 2 Aug 1945

    Humid, overcast, showery.

    Finished Sewing shop window. Repaired “A” Bungalow roof.

    To lecture on Phycology with C. ∴x aber nicht mehr? [but no more]


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