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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 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2012-02-22 22:35
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sun, 30 Aug 1942

    Mabel 19 today.  Popped up to ward to say Happy Brthday to Mary, it's her birthday too - 24th.   Mara, Nan and friends gave Mabel pretty birthday (home-made) cards, and hankies, and a party this afternoon in the cemetery.
    Mrs G cooked the cake!  -- nominally for Nan's friend Una ((Brown)) in Married Q. kitchen. ((Constance Una Brown, whose husband in HKVDC was killed during fighting; their little daughter Annette also in camp.))

    To Benediction in afternoon.   In evening piano recital..  The lovely music upset Mabel, because no Sid here on her birthday.

    Later we fried sweet potatoes from Mr Gelling's ((J.H. Gelling)) garden ((they were birthday present)), and had salmon and rice; Nan came along too - a nice little spread.

    Duke of Kent was apparently killed on 25th August.

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  • 30 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-07-09 22:47
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    Sun, 30 Aug 1942

    No news.

  • 30 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 22:30
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sun, 30 Aug 1942

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    Kitchen & food supervisors for week - Mrs. Gordon Jenner / A W Black / (Brown) / T.Binks

    ((Barbara Anslow: The Gordon Jenner must be Mrs Dorothy Jenner, an Australian journalist who lived in the Married Q as did MacNider, Black, (also us Redwoods).    I heard that she was known in Australia as Andrea, and wrote in the Australian newspaper prewar under that name.  She was very voluble, and wrote about life in Stanley postwar in a book "Darlings, I've had a ball".))


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