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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.

  • 25 Oct 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-16 17:48
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Wed, 25 Oct 1944

    Mum to hospital with dysentery.

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  • 25 Oct 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-11-24 19:11
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 25 Oct 1944

    Cool, cloudy. NE wind.

    Cook house & woodchopping.

    Russians capture Goldap 21st. Germans evac. Nis area. Breskens captured 19th. Allied forces pushing E of Aachen on to Durens. Cervia 19mls North of Rimini captured 21st. 

    Lorry arrived 2.30pm with fish & veg.

    Some talk of free issue of cigs. Vic gave me a packet for shifting bricks & iron plate.

    With Steve pm.

    Gave Mary blue sweater.


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