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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.

  • 5 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:11
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 5 Oct 1942

    2 Jap convoys messed up off Formosa. Japs lost 2 Battleshps 4 cruisers & 11 transports & destroyers in an attack on the Aleutians. Burma bombed. 8,000 Japs mopped up in New Guinea.

    C.S. & C of P. informed re my desire to rejoin R.N. if I am repatriated.

    Cig. issue (5).

    ((Jones was a submariner in the Royal Navy before working in the Hong Kong Prisons. "C.S. & C of P" are probably the Colonial Secretary, Gimson, and the Commissioner of Prisons, Willcocks))

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  • 5 Oct 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 23:02
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 5 Oct 1942

    Issue of 5 Royal Leaf $3.

  • 05 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2016-04-13 17:38
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 5 Oct 1942

    Pasties at the hospilal, delicious pastry.

    Mabel looking so much better.  

    Had Welfare issue of lav. Paper.  

    Lovely Elizabeth in evening, after Rosary servce in the open.

  • 05 Oct 1942, W J Carrie's wartime diary

    Submitted by Isochronous on Thu, 2019-09-12 17:05
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    W J Carrie's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 5 Oct 1942

    I feel a bit better but the blood count is not so good Haemoglobin is up to 58% but the count is down to 2,180,000.  Drugs that might be helpful are unobtainable - or in some cases beyond my purse! But I'm feeling better so I don't worry.  A ship came in from Lourenco Marques 3 days ago said to have 1000 tons of parcels for prisoners. I wonder if Edith would ever think of sending anything - or perhaps she wouldn't hear about it.  We've had a bit of a typhoon blow since so unloading has no doubt been delayed.  A letter would be better than anything - if it told me where you are.     AMLAML.    B.


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