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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 May 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2012-02-04 11:56
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 29 May 1942

    Despite having my glasses, am beginning to have trouble with eyes – no sunglasses.  Went with Mum to Welfare, she got milk powder and apricots.

    Mrs. Grant has lost 70lbs. ((This is the neighbour and friend who, when we were shipped to Stanley, cried that she couldn't jump from our ship into the junk to take us ashore.   Mum too had lost a tremendous amount of weight, she weighed 133 lbs. when she came out of hospital, having been about 170 pre-Jap attack.))

    We may be swimming next month!

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  • 29 May 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-23 22:00
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 29 May 1942

    Hot, sticky & showery.

    Sat on Cemetery wall.

    Canton surrounded?

    Rommell ((sic)) surrendered?

    6 mths pay due?

    $2250

  • 29 May 1942, John Charter's wartime journal

    Submitted by HK Bill on Mon, 2021-03-15 14:42
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    John Charter's wartime journal
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 29 May 1942

    We had previously been given lists of articles they hoped to provide and were asked to place a tick against those we required. These included shorts, shirts, dress material, hats, handkerchiefs, underwear, socks, sleeping mats, shoes, saucepans, spoons, forks, mugs, basins and other very useful articles. Owing to the prohibitive cost of things now in Hong Kong it was not possible to get all these things - at least, a very limited number of some of articles were brought in. Where demand exceeded supply, names were put in a hat and the allocation of articles was decided by drawing.


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