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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.

  • 30 Oct 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-04-16 17:52
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 30 Oct 1944

    Olive to hospital with dysentery.

    So for a few days Mabel and I had the room to ourselves  ((Mrs K had by now moved out as she and her husband had got a billet together)).  One night we had gramophone (always on loan around the camp by its generous owners); Fortescues came in for recital, and we had a candle.  Adrian looked so nice by candle-light.  ((The Fortescues lived in the kitchen next to our room, basin and draining board having been removed, even then it was tiny for 2 adults and a small child, but they valued their privacy more than space.))

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  • 30 Oct 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-11-24 19:16
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 30 Oct 1944

    Cloudy, muggy. NE wind.

    Cookhouse construction.

    Workers oil & sugar issued. ½ lb W.T. residue Y6 (7/-) & 12 cigs issued.

    Paper tries its best to make Taiwan & Phillipine Battles o’erwhelming wins for them, but they cannot help but indicate the true trend of events. The Yanks may be having a rough time but they are winning. Euro news very scanty.

    With Steve pm.

    Mary gave me Y20.

    Air-raid alarm 9.15pm. Planes around but nothing dropped, reconnaissance perhaps.

  • 30 Oct 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-10-11 15:36
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 30 Oct 1944

    Issue of 12 “R.L.” cigarettes 80 sen. ((Royal Leaf cigarettes, see 26th for details.)) 


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