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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.

  • 26 Jul 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Fri, 2012-06-01 14:04
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 26 Jul 1945

    St Stephen's etc. still evacuated, the 200 ex inhabitants are sleeping wherever they can in Blocks 9, 10 and 11.  Not supposed to return to their billets, but some have risked it to get essentials.

    Leilah (in hospital) looking so much better.

    German lesson off (Crutwell's) because air raid alarm between 11.45 and 12.10, but we had it at 4pm.

    The Formosans are reputed to have stopped Tony Sandberg's wedding till Saturday because it's 'a better day' !

    Irma Mejia's 20th birthday.

    Peace Programme meeting in grotto in evening.

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  • 26 Jul 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2013-12-31 21:49
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 26 Jul 1945

    Noel Croucher is defiant in the aftermath of yesterday's bombing:

    The next day, Colonel Nomura ((see note)) ordered a few of us to parade, and he called me out, told me he wanted me to answer some questions, and warned me to speak the truth. He asked, 'Was that an American plane which dropped the bomb on your roof?' I answered 'No,' and he asked me why. I told him that it must have been a Japanese plane because the Japanese had vowed that no American bomber would ever reach Hong Kong.

    Source:

    Vaudine England, The Quest of Noel Croucher, 1998, 150

    Note:

    In George Wright-Nooth's telling of this story, the Japanese Colonel is Noma.

    Noma Kennosuke was the head of the Kempeitai (Gendarmes) in Hong Kong until February 1945 when he was replaced by Kanazawa Asao - according to Philip Snow, Noma was 'recalled', which suggests he left Hong Kong.

  • 26 Jul 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 17:13
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 26 Jul 1945

    Hot, humid.

    Hosp. Cookhse floor. Finished off G’s shoes.

    Some news knocking about  re 5th & 8th Armies.

    G with Kew as lecture as promised. ((Possibly A J Kew or H W Kew))

    Salt (rock) £18 per lb. ∴


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