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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.

  • 23 Oct 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-10-05 14:47
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 23 Oct 1943

    Cloudy but dry & fresh wind.

    Poor food.

    Bulletin rather cloudy again, Teia-Maru not to call on her way to Japan, & the food is destined to Canadians only.

    With Steve pm.

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  • 23 Oct 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Sat, 2015-06-06 22:50
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sat, 23 Oct 1943

    "Private lives" by Noel Coward ((see 21st for details))

  • 23 Oct 1943, W J Carrie's wartime diary

    Submitted by alhill on Mon, 2019-10-07 23:34
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    W J Carrie's wartime diary
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    Sat, 23 Oct 1943

    Another letter No27 of 13/12/42 arrived a few days ago - it's lovely to get them, old though they are.  Frank looked in last night and said he had one from you too. I must go up this evening and see it. My Christmas present was blankets you tell me - I have saved our blankets - about the only thing I could save - because I was using them.  You envy the Macleods being all together - you and I Darling could have gone through this together though I'd have hated seeing you hungry and emaciated - you would certainly got thin here! - but it would have been a tragedy if Joy and Ian had been here at their ages.  Think of the waste of time. As it is the Macleod children are suffering - Callum is now really a "problem" child and the children have had many extras in food etc that would have been saved many of the older men and women. Wait until you hear Dora's story - you'll be thankful that you didn't get back to H.K.  I worried all 1942, not knowing where in the wide world you might be but when I heard you were all home in Edinburgh, with Joy and Ian I am able to "get on" normally an unspeakable weight of anxiety was removed. I really do think we'll all be together soon and then we can make plans for the future.

    All my love always Billie.

    You were "collecting" whisky for me too - fancy I've been TT for nearly 2 years now! - and I'm sure it has done me good but I feel that a little of the old stuff would put me right again quicker than anything.


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