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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.

  • 21 Feb 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-01-23 14:22
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Wed, 21 Feb 1945

    Overcast, cold & drizzly. Will this weather ever clear up?

    Lorry with wood 1pm.

    Jap paper admits US forces ashore on Iwojima. Dutch Col. who gave Germans information re Allied paratroops landing at Arnheim shot in Tower of London.

    Rec. very thin blanket from Welfare.

    More wood 5.30pm. 

    Worked at Hosp. Cookh’se.

    Oil, sugar, tea & Soy issued. Workers cigs issued 50% cut.

    Plenty plane activity all day despite the clouds.

    Rice 11% cut.

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  • 21 Feb 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Fri, 2016-06-03 13:20
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Wed, 21 Feb 1945

    Still on holiday.  Rainy.  

    Visited Twidales; Betty (nee Cullen) was sick, so I went with her brother George to bring litle sister Rosie home from hospital, then to St Stephens for last rehearsal of The Last Meeting.

    We got more eggs.


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