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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.

  • 22 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-03-04 11:36
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 22 Oct 1942

    Mrs Denton is in next bed to Mabel.  (Ivy Denton, nee Thirlwell - Eurasian).  She says a Chinese said the men who went from HK ((on 'Lisbon Maru')) were mostly Wavy Navy (HKRNVR), and that the regulars are working at Kai Tak with shaved heads.

    Mr. Pyke died (Alfred, aged 59).

    Catholic Action meeting in evening.

    A bulletin gives names of people who have died since internment ((i.e.  who died in other camps)).  One is Mr Lacey, husband of Annie Lacey; she is here with twins called Winston and Wavell, aged 1 year.

    I'm now considered on Permanent Establishment of Senior Clerical & Accounting Staff of Govt.

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  • 22 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:55
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 22 Oct 1942

    U.S. & Jap fleet in action in South Pacific. Burma bombed. Tokyo bombed? Stalingrad battle expected to reach climax today.

  • 22 Oct 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2012-12-19 15:53
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 22 Oct 1942

    Death of Alfred Charles Septimus Pike, aged 59. He was married in 1918 and worked as a master mariner.

    His widow, Sarah Ann,  was later to state he died of pneumonia, dysentery and beri-beri - adding 'from starvation' (underlined). She herself was treated for colitis and high blood pressure while in Stanley. In the 1950s she received grants from Australian funds set up to help former internees on account of heart and blood pressure problems and other health issues - her physician believed that internment was a factor.

    Sources:

    Date: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271

    All else: Australian National Archive 510

    Note: for some reason the Hong Kong News for October 26 has an advert recording Mr Pike's death on page 2. It says it took place on October 24.

  • 22 Oct 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Wed, 2014-10-29 21:09
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 22 Oct 1942

    Death of A.C.S. Pike (59).


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