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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 Jun 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2012-05-26 16:23
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 23 Jun 1945

    Rumour that some of the outlying beaches have been shelled.

    Social in afternoon, great success. I recited poem:

    'Is there really an England, I wonder?
    Or is memory confused with a dream?
    Was there ever a life without hardship and strife
    Where a lazy content reigned supreme?
     
    Does there still stand a road trim with houses,
    All alike, yet a difference in one?
    (Nothing frightfully great, just the creak of a gate
    That's a welcome when roaming is done?)
     
    Did I ever rush to a hot kitchen
    On a raw winter's late afternoon,
    And toast hunks of bread that I afterwards spread
    Thick with butter that melted too soon?
     
    Was I once in a small old-world garden,
    Bright with roses and pansies and all?
    And away at the end, a few Wyandottes penned,
    And a cat sat in state on the wall?
     
    There are none who can steal my illusions,
    That is, if illusions they be:
    And though all else may go, I have something no foe
    Can appropriate - my memory.'

    Letter from Margaret Todd (UK):-  'Delighted to get letter... Expecting baby in May.'

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  • 23 Jun 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by chrisbartlett on Fri, 2014-07-04 21:05
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 23 Jun 1945

    Beef arrived

    Betty Twydale

    Y75 canteen (wong tong, bran, salt or soy sauce)

    (Y34/8 ozs.)

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

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-06-13 11:09
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 23 Jun 1945

    Hot, SW wind. Trying weather.

    Odd jobs.

    Col. in 2.30pm for an hour.

    Canteen A & B groups. W.T. ½ lb 34-50. Salt or Soy sauce ¼ lb 5-50.

    Lorry in with beef 6pm.


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