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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 Sep 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-09-04 18:15
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 4 Sep 1944

    Cooler, fine, wind E.

    Outside roll-call 8.45am (1 male too many, 1 female short. Eventually found amongst Norwegians).

    5 days wood arrived.

    Excellent news. Verdun, Amiens, Arras & Dieppe captured & Sedan besieged. Russians being held on their front (Theory is that Germans prefer our invasion of Germany to the Russians)

    With Steve pm.  

    Delivery of parcels still the main thought of most people.

    Daily average Veg 9.5oz fish not enough to worthy its reckoning.

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  • 04 Sep 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-01-26 15:20
    Book / Document: 
    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 4 Sep 1944

    Great display early a.m. activity. Searchlights. 


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