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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.

  • 08 Oct 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-10-02 15:42
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Mon, 8 Oct 1945

    Lovely all day, cooler evening. Shirts being worn once more.

    Socotra abeam 6pm. Beautiful sunset, sea like a mirror.

    Rec. £3.

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  • 08 Oct 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Thu, 2016-07-07 12:32
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Mon, 8 Oct 1945

    Radio news said the p.o.ws liberated who arrived in the s.s.Corfu at Southampton were giving a roaring welcome and taken into camp, given roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and are going to their homes today.   600 more are arriving at Liverpool, so impatient for it to be us.

    This afternoon we are in sight of the island of Socotra, off Somaliland.


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