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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 May 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-05-12 14:27
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 21 May 1944

    Heavy rain storms early am cleared up during the day.

    Ground rice for congee.

    C.S. thinks we’ll be relieved during the year sometime.

    With Steve pm.

    Quiet day, no news.

    Pay tomorrow?

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  • 21 May 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2017-04-17 11:29
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 21 May 1944

    Sandbach / Myhill

    Drown

  • 21 May 1944, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

    Submitted by Alison Gerrard on Sun, 2019-06-16 17:48
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    Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 21 May 1944

    On Thursday I received three glorious letters from you dated 22/11/42, 8/3/43 and 1/4/43 and the latter is the most recent of the letters from you I have received. I am very grateful to you Dearest for the faithfulness and goodness of your dear self for I know by the dates of the letters I have received that you have written to me every week and tho' they take a long time to reach here nevertheless they are very precious and have been joyfully received. I only wish we here had been allowed to write as often and had the freedom to say what were our innermost thoughts and judging by the shortage of mail being received at your end it would appear as if some if not most of the letters and postcard written here had either been scrapped or lost. Thanks a lot.

    I saw the doctor on Thursday as assigned and am much improved as regards the beri beri, but at the moment I am suffering from diarrhoea and pains in my tummy and my piles are very painful with a lot of bleeding.


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