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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.

  • 07 Jul 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-02-19 16:14
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 7 Jul 1942

    Sebastipool gone. Thrust on Kharkov by Germans. 

    Photos (by Japs) were being taken in the food queue today.  ((Perhaps this was when this food queue photo which appears in some books was taken:

    Stanley Camp Food Queue
    ))

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  • 7 Jul 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-06-26 16:47
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 7 Jul 1942

    Repatriation yarn all rot.

    $75 parcels being issued.

    Rec. $14 from Taylor. ((Barbara Anslow: The 'Taylor' who gave Mr Jones money would be Mr A.J.C. Taylor of the Hong Kong Treasury. I record in diary of 8th July that my sister Olive and I each received $15 from him, so this seems to have been an official handout to civil servants in camp.))

    (2nd Front to be opened. America to send more s/ms to Pac. & Med. Churchill sends for G.O.C. Lybia [sic] to explain loss of Tobruk. Chinese have 20,000 Japs bottled up around Canton?)

  • 7 Jul 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-07-03 16:44
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    Ella Buuck's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 7 Jul 1942

    We are still here and is it hot! What a relief it will be when we once get moving.

    They took on fresh water and allowed us to use it all day. They warned us that it would be our last chance for a bath. All people were busy washing etc. Only salt water baths in the future.

    The white crosses are big and plain to see.

    They fixed up slides on top deck for the children and they do have a swell time now. Bobby would go up and down for hours if I’d help him and stay with him.

    We had a long talk with Mr. Arndt last night. ((Was Mr Arndt from Hong Kong, or had he joined from one of the other locations?))


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