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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 Jul 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 16:20
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sun, 8 Jul 1945

    Wittenbach / Alton

    (Meat )

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

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 16:56
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sun, 8 Jul 1945

    Overcast, showery. Cool, S wind.

    Chopped wood V & G.  

    With Steve aft. real flour cake.

    Ring for Ying. 

    No flag up. No rescription [?] in East.

    Black-market stuff: Lard 875Y. Sugar 300Y. Sardines 400Y. 

    Weather improved pm.

    Lorry with veg. 10pm. ∴

  • 08 Jul 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2016-07-04 15:56
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sun, 8 Jul 1945

    Meat stew, delicious.Took egg white to Peggy which she will cook for Mr Nicholas. ((This was part of a scheme of Father Meyer's whereby he would get egg white to be cooked by some of his congregation for elderly invalids mainly.))

    Visited in hospital Pat C, so glad for him and Sheila; then to Ivy Wright-Brown, Mrs Hamilton, Mr Nicholson.

  • 08 Jul 1945, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

    Submitted by Alison Gerrard on Sun, 2020-11-01 12:48
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    Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong
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    Sun, 8 Jul 1945

    As we have not been allowed newspapers since the end of May, any news trickling into the camp is very scarce and most unreliable but sifting it out and using our grey matter thing must be moving rapidly and our release should not be long delayed.

    Conditions in the camp are very poor, the food supply being well just water, rice, water melon and pumpkin all water, but with beans added it is palatable. There is not any body building material except the meat that we are now getting at the weekends. We have had beef for the last 3 weekends, but in very small quantities. I have had to buy in the Black Market what I can as after my illness I was very weak and still suffer from fever and so I've sold things to get the necessary Yen. The water supplies now better being on every day for part of the day. Weather Typhoony.


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