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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 Jul 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-06-30 02:19
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 3 Jul 1943

    Fine.

    Working at Hosp.

    Passed Med. board.

    7oz. marmalade issued.

    ((G))

    To A. Lays concert with Steve. ((Probably Arthur Lay, as Barbara's diary also mentions him on other days, playing piano.))

    ((G))

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  • 03 Jul 1943, W J Carrie's wartime diary

    Submitted by kathrynsa on Sat, 2019-09-28 13:07
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    W J Carrie's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 3 Jul 1943

    Two Red Cross Letter forms arrived from you today of 23/12 & 20/1/43.  I was so glad to get them.  I was feeling very depressed and they cheered me up.  I can't understand  why you have never received  the letter one of the American ladies took - she was to send it to Dacca but as she got home to USA  in August I can't understand why the letter hadn't gone to Dacca and back to you by January.  Perhaps all communication is difficult.

    I was to have another blood count today but Greaves was busy.  He gave me one of my collars which had come in in a parcel from his Senior Lab. Attendant at the B.I.  That means my cabin trunk has been broached and I expect that everything is now lost.  I expected it latterly but hope lingers on and now is all blasted.  So I was rather down when your cheering letters came.  Material possessions just don't matter - we'll do with a lot less in future. 

    So Goodnight    L.O.   AIAW.   B.


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