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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.

  • 4 Nov 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2012-03-03 19:07
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Wed, 4 Nov 1942

    Two pieces of news involving the Red Cross today.

    Extract from letter home:

    ...One cheering fact is that the International Red Cross is definitely established at Hong Kong. The man placed in charge I know very well and I have felt far happier and more encouraged ever since I learned of his appointment. He is a Swiss by the name of Zindel and was formerly connected with Arnhold and Company...

     

    Matron Dyson realises that the families of the imprisoned nurses must be suffering great anxiety because they've had no news of them since some time before the surrender, so she writes to the Japanese authorities asking them to inform the International Red Cross of their whereabouts:

    By courtesy of the Japanese authorities:

    Since our arrival in Stanley on August 10th it is thought that the British Government have no information regarding our transfer to a Civilian Internment  Camp and owing to the recent incidents it is much feared that our relatives will be exceedingly anxious as to our safety and welfare presuming that we are still stationed in Hong Kong.

    I respectfully request that in order to alleviate what must be great mental distress that a cable be sent to the Matron-in-Chief, the War Office, London, stating that all eighteen members of the Army, Navy and Canadian Nursing Services are safe and well in Stanley Camp.

    Sources:

    The Hong Kong Fellowship Newsletter, No. 2, June 1943, 8

    Nicola Tyrer, Sisters in Arms, 2008, 66

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  • 4 Nov 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-03-05 17:54
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Wed, 4 Nov 1942

    We have to black out again tonight.  Lovely rissole for tiffin.   Had fried egg last night and tonight, really delicious.  ((Duck eggs sometimes for sale)).

    Tale is that of loose Red Cross food, ((i.e., not in the small individual parcels)) we will each have 30 tins of bully, 25 lbs sugar, 25 lbs dried fruit, 1 & half lbs. of caramel, and of cocoa.   Lovely if true!

    We have drawn a canteen ticket for tomorrow.  

    Made a front cover for 'Limelight on the Lower Fifth.'

  • 4 Nov 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-10-31 21:59
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Wed, 4 Nov 1942

    All Germans out of Stalingrad. Our Lybian advance slowed down due to landmines. Japs repulsed in attacks in Chekiang province. Russians manned Manchoukou border & Turks the Bulgarian border.

    Taipo bombed.

    Lights out at 10 P.M.

    ((G.))

  • 04 Nov 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Wed, 2014-10-29 21:16
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Wed, 4 Nov 1942

    Black-out, lights out 10 p.m.


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