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 Mar 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-05-07 17:18

Book / Document:
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date(s) of events described:
Fri, 30 Mar 1945
Good Friday. To service am. Eyes pretty stuck up.

Went to see Doreen and gave her an impromptu shorthand lesson.

Rumours: we will get wong tong; and Japs expect hostilities within 4 hours.

To play at 3.15pm, 'Behold Thy Mother'.

Valerie Clark has chicken pox and is in hospital.

Mrs Ashton-Hill has just heard that her husband died in Japan last September.

We had a hot cross bun from hospital.

To Rosary at Grants, then walked round with Marie and Gladys.

Mum and I had remains of Carlton pudding in a fritter. (('Carlton pudding' was the name on one of the tins in the Red Cross parcels but I can't remember its contents!))
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30 Mar 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-02-23 00:33

Book / Document:
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date(s) of events described:
Fri, 30 Mar 1945
Bright & warm.

Fixed sun-blind for G & V.

2 boxes matches Y7.60.

Cleared out ex.lav. after the door had been taken for firewood.

Lorry with Canteen gear.

All news good. Argentine declared war on G & J. More troops landed in Luchu Is. Japs contradict Peace feelers. No E. war news.

Plane around 9pm – 10pm S & E.

Wood & blasting.
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