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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 Feb 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2011-12-31 21:55
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 27 Feb 1942

    Cookhouse all day. Russians interned? (Fridge, cooker & boiler taken out of our flat & used elsewhere pal)

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  • 27 Feb 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-03-08 22:07
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 27 Feb 1942

    1 extra bread, and PORRIDGE in afternoon and evening, and stewed fruit and suspicion of custard after tiffin. Think I'm putting on weight (having lost about 10 lbs since Christmas).

    ((The porridge, from canteen, was the most fantastic morale builder.  For a few precious evenings, the electric cookers in one of the former Married Q. kitchens were made available to us by our kitchen staff.  Inevitable queue of people waiting their turn to go in with their tins to cook up their little bits.  Surprising discovery that one internee was hogging a ring to herself for long time - actually boiling her sheets because 'she always boiled her sheets'.))


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