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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.

  • 27 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-03-04 11:43
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Tue, 27 Oct 1942

    Dr Hargreaves tugged out some more of my ((infected)) eyelashes ((he'd had to do that a couple of months earlier)). Eyes ache and are sore.

    Jap. papers admit air raid, they say they shot down 2 planes.  No word of our parcels, all fear we may not get them now due to lack of transport etc.

    Selwyn-Clarke didn't come in, upsetting all x-ray arrangements.

    Mabel getting really fat in the face.

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  • 27 Oct 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2012-06-08 20:25
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Tue, 27 Oct 1942

    Internee Captain George Andrew Burn, aged 65, formerly a Master Mariner with Harry Wicking and Co. Merchants and Agents, dies at the French Hospital.

     

    The Times (London) carries an optimistic account of conditions in the Hong Kong camps based on the report of International Red Cross delegates Rudolf Zindel and Edward Egle - 'the general state of health of prisoners in Hong Kong is good'.

    Sources:

    Burn: Greg Leck, Captives of Empire, 2006, 619

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=n&GScid=2179361&GRid=15293606&CScntry=173&

    Times: Oliver Lindsay and John Harris, The Battle for Hong Kong 1941-1945, 2005, 179

     

    Note:

    Nevertheless Burn is on the BAAG list In St. Paul's French Hospital in late 1942.

  • 27 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 12:01
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Tue, 27 Oct 1942

    Much less air patrols by Japs today.

    Conflicting reports of damage in town in Camp.

    Bowls Single Finals played off. Oram beat Bradley. ((There was a Miss J A Oram in camp, but would they have had mixed-sex competition in Bowls? The other possibility is Mr J Orem.))

    Sie miss mir wollen. ((Jill Fell: The nearest thing I can think of is "Sie muss mehr wollen" = "She must want more." I wonder if he was learning by ear. "Mehr" is almost the same pronunciation as "mir". "Mir" = "to me" doesn't make sense in this context.))

    Grinding rice.

    (In raids on HK we lost 2 & Japs lost 12 planes) We have advanced 100 mls in Lybia & have complete control of Indian Ocean. (Taikoo raided 2.30PM?)


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