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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.

  • 6 Aug 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2012-05-18 23:35
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 6 Aug 1945

    At about 8.15 a.m. (local time) the Enola Gay releases an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima.

    The wife and step-daughter of interpreter Kiyoshi Watanabe are among the 70-80 thousand people who are killed by the explosion and subsequent fire storm.

    Source:

    Watanabe: Liam Nolan, Small Man of Nanataki, 1966, 154-155

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  • 06 Aug 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2012-05-26 16:47
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 6 Aug 1945

    Not feeling well.  

    St Catherine's meeting .

    Working.  

    Went to see Doreen about shorthand – and found that Doreen's pa knew nothing about her decision to stop learning.

    Pacifism meeting in our room.

  • 06 Aug 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 17:31
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 6 Aug 1945

    Overcast, showery, warmer.

    Odd jobs.

    A & B Groups Canteen ¼ lb Tea 19.50  ¼ lb Salt 5.50.

    (Adml. Nimura saw Grew for 7hrs & returned to Japan?)

    De-bugged G’s chair.

    Lecture on “Theatre” by Sloss. ∴ 

    weary.

  • 06 Aug 1945, John Charter's wartime journal

    Submitted by HK Bill on Tue, 2022-05-17 17:37
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    John Charter's wartime journal
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 6 Aug 1945

    Today is Yvonne’s birthday and Mother and Father’s wedding anniversary. We have had quite a nice day, celebrated as our limited circumstances allow. We had some egg yolk and oil on our congee in the morning and finished with a cigarette! For lunch I made two little steamed puddings with half our last tin of bully beef mixed with some sweet potatoes and onions from our garden. Then in the afternoon Anne Muir and Terrance Feltham had tea with us and played bridge. Maudie lent us her room for the occasion. Then in the evening we went again to block 10 where Maudie entertained us, with delicious coffee and cigarettes. Maudie gave Yvonne a packet of cigarettes; Anne had made her a very smart pair of underpants and I gave her a small cigarette holder which I made from a piece of guava wood. Isa gave her an ash tray to complete the smoking outfit and the Bidwells gave her some brinjals from their garden. Surely we shan’t have to celebrate any more birthdays in here!

    The evacuees from the bungalows and St. Stephens were eventually rehabilitated on Thursday Aug 2nd, 8 days after they had been turned out. Terrance, who was one of them, said he never thought he would be glad to get back to his ‘home’ in Stanley, but he was!


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