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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 Apr 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-09 15:07
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 30 Apr 1944

    No births during April.

    Mabel had a truss fitted (for back injury) but it wouldn't work, so in hospital again, to be put in a plaster jacket. ((This plaster wouldn't set though, so she came home on 27th and the workshop started to make her a steel jacket out of old ceiling fan blades.  She wore this very patiently for about 6 months and it helped)).

    Still getting no meat and no bread - and not very much of anything.

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

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-04-03 21:44
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 30 Apr 1944

    Mostly fine & humid, some showers.

    Ground rice for bread.

    Machine conked out again.

    With Steve pm.

    No news.

    Newman & Ah Lo arrested by drunken Ind. guard & taken to village. Arrested released, guard detained. ((Possibly C M Newman. Not sure who "Ah Lo" refers to.))

    Not such a brilliant month.

    Hungry mostly, no mental & little physical energy.

  • 30 Apr 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-04-25 10:34
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 30 Apr 1944

    Rose / Ponting

    Patty Mace / Jenner


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