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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 Jun 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2012-05-26 16:21
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Fri, 22 Jun 1945

    16 years since we left Hong Kong in 1929.

    Repatriation rumours - ship in Manila!

    To club meeting.  Harold Bidwell talked about Beaumont College.

    Air raid alarms.   We ate at 4pm because every one  had to be indoors 4-30 - 5.30pm, people - some of them Europeans - went out from Gaol.

    Finished writing 'Balancing Jean' very badly and scrappily.

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  • 22 Jun 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2014-02-23 20:14
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 22 Jun 1945

    A number of Allied prisoners, both civilian and military, are moved from Stanley Prison to a jail in Canton.

    These include former Stanleyites William Anderson, Andrew Leiper, Reginald Camidge, W. A. Cruickshank and Hugo Foy,

    Source:

    China Mail, October 17, 1945, page 2

  • 22 Jun 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by chrisbartlett on Fri, 2014-07-04 21:04
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 22 Jun 1945

    am outdoor roll-call

    4.30 - 5.30 pm to stay in rooms, not to look out of windows - order was cancelled at 4.20 - apparently Europe ????? ((unclear - written in shorthand?))

  • 22 Jun 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-06-13 11:05
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 22 Jun 1945

    Hot & heavy weather. SW wind cloudy.

    Bit of a row with Franks in Congee queue.

    Hosp. taps & wheelbarrow repairs.

    Another ring for Mrs Willcocks.

    Sugar 1.4oz & tea .6oz issued 10 day supply.

    A/r alarm 10.45am – 11.30 & 12.30 to 1.50pm.

    Stilwell & McArthur in Manilla [sic]. Stilwell had C.K.Shek [Chiang Kai-shek!] clear out adverse elements in Chinese forces. Jap. Naval Base bombed so heavily the Jap naval vessels had to put to sea where they received a nice battering. We have enough land bases for planes that A/c carriers are no longer necessary. “Queen Mary”, “Normandie” & “Aquitania” carrying out 1 div. fully equipped troops per trip. 150,000 troops & 6,000 tanks already in Luzon. 2/3s of Canton smashed up & China land offensive has commenced. San Francisco Conf. wound up with all Ps settled.

    Road closed 4pm. Bus load of E. Pris’s left the Gaol.

    With G & Michael [?] on beach. ((Not sure which Michael this is))

    ?C


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