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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.

  • 3 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-03-04 10:49
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sat, 3 Oct 1942

    Mabel looked so weary and frail this morning.

    Olive and I went to receive 'scapula' medals at the Maryknoll chapel.  Feast of the Little Flower. ((St Teresa)).

    The wall, cutting policemen off from the office ((hospital)), is complete. ((Several Policemen who were billetted at the hospital as protectors of the Sisters, since apart from patients, only one other male - the duty doctor - stayed overnight.  Until this wall was built, these policemen had occupied a section of the office behind piles of hospital stores)).

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

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:01
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 3 Oct 1942

    28,000 Japs wiped up in New Guinea & a big Jap convoy sunk off Formosa?


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