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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 Jul 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-06-30 03:53
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 23 Jul 1943

    Fine, warmer.

    Ground rice for Mary.

    Took Bonnie for swim aft. with O.B. ((Who/what is "O.B."? Barbara Anslow suggests it may have been Captain Oscar Basham, master mariner, aged 53, who is included in Greg Leck's list of internees.))

    Choir went over very well again tonight. 

    Wrote my 200 word letter.

    20Y issued.

    158 lbs.

    Average total weight of food per head per day including bones, stalks etc. 20 ½ ozs.

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  • 23 Jul 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by chrisbartlett on Wed, 2014-07-16 22:50
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 23 Jul 1943

    Classical concert ((for details see 22nd July))

    Issue of Y20

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

    Submitted by kathrynsa on Thu, 2019-10-03 08:49
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    W J Carrie's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 23 Jul 1943

    Adored, I've been thinking of you all evening and I'm sure you have been thinking of me.  25 Years ago today - how I can picture the whole scene again - on the stairs and in Esther's sitting room - she was away getting the supper!  Soon it will be THE day and it is a shame we can't be together.  There is still just a slender hope as I hear we are going to Goa and not Lourenco Marques and I might be able to fly from India.  But I fear it won't come true.  But I really hope and believe that we'll be together for Christmas.

    I am very tired tonight so I won't write more but just sit, play patience and think of you.  Our allowance came in yesterday and I've been busy paying out today - 14,310 Yen.

    So Goodnight Loved One.    AIAW.   BB.
     


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