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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.

  • 29 Dec 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-12-22 11:46
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 29 Dec 1944

    Overcast, West wind, warmer & brighter pm.

    Dentists window.

    F.H. spoke for first time since July ’41.

    6 oz Syrup(8-75) & Suk yin 1oz(7-50) issued.

    Lorry with wood 4.30pm.

    The papers, which go to H.Qs. every day, are still up there. Japs will not allow distribution for some reason.

    ((Who was the "F.H." who spoke for the first time since July '41? That was long before the fighting, so their silence wasn't connected with any wartime traumas.

    Possible candidates:

    Not any of these - with reasons:

    • Frederick Ivan Hall - Executed in 1943
    • Frank Henry William Haynes - Died in 1943
    • F R Hearther - Repatriated to USA in 1942
    • Francis Noble Hill - mentions of F N Hill in R E Jones's diary strongly suggest they were having conversations

    ))

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  • 29 Dec 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by David on Thu, 2016-12-29 16:04
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 29 Dec 1944

    "New Year Revue" (p.by ??? ((unclear "Mills"?)), Bateman, Garton,???)


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