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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.

  • 7 Feb 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2012-05-02 14:45
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 7 Feb 1945

    Had egg in evening, fried a pancake.

    Shorthand with Ivy Batley and Mrs. Goddard.

    2 cards from Auntie Lil, one May 1944.

    Very cold.

    Leilah came to rehearse in passage at 4pm and is good.  ((Leilah Woods, teenager.   Her mother was Japanese/German, her father English.  He was working in Shanghai when the Japs attacked, and died there during the war (probably killed by Japs.)  In Stanley with Leilah were her mother, her  sister Edith and Edith's husband Arthur, and their children Mavis and Richard Hamson.  Leilah, now widowed, lives in Canada and we often chat on the phone.))

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  • 07 Feb 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-01-23 13:08
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 7 Feb 1945

    Overcast, cold.

    Workshops.

    Manila entered 4th. Kobe bombed 4th. Russians 10 mls SE Stettin 4th.

    A & B Groups Canteen.

    2 boxes matches issued Y1-95 each.

    Question now is, “What will arrive first”, food or release. 

    Lorry arrived empty.

  • 07 Feb 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Grace on Thu, 2015-01-29 14:30
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 7 Feb 1945

    HK News - "Street fighting in Manila City"


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