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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 Feb 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2012-03-31 18:47
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 5 Feb 1944

    Dr. Myasaka took over the medical side of the camp and introduced a clinic system.

    ((This resulted in much more paper work in hospital office.  Japs supplied forms for the decentralised clinics through the camp, and each patient became the subject of a form; records of these were made in the hospital office, we also card-indexed and cross-referenced all hospital patients.))

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  • 5 Feb 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-02-03 22:53
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 5 Feb 1944

    Cleaned bthrooms etc.

    2 Pkt Cigs issued.

    New guards appear to be getting more familiar & accustomed to their job & to us.

    Hosp 2-5pm.

    With Steve pm.

    Cold & rainy.

    Instructions re repat. completed, (checking of Passports & Identity papers & required destination listed ready for air transmission to Tokyo.

  • 05 Feb 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2016-01-30 11:36
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 5 Feb 1944

    Classical concert ((for details see 3rd Feb))


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