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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.

  • 8 Sep 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2012-06-05 13:23
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sat, 8 Sep 1945

    Mum came in from Stanley, up to my office.  She looked very nice in blue and white dress  (from some unknown source, and hollows in her face seem to have filled in already.)

    Pears for breakfast, and lovely cold meat for tiffin, and pasty for dinner.

    The new administration arrived (Brigadier MacDougall.)

    Mum visited Naval Dockyard and Naval Terrace. ((Naval Terrace was an enclosed block of 6 lovely flats (ground, first and second floor) adjoining the Naval Dockyard, the entrance being in Queen's Road.  All occupied by key Dockyard personnel who needed to be near the Dockyard. My Dad was Superintending Electrical Engineer. We had a ground floor flat, spacious rooms, verandahs on each side. Lovely garden all around, with trees - and a hard tennis court. There was a door in the wall through which employees could walk into the dockyard, but we used the main door which opened on to Queen's Road.   Every night a Dockyard Policeman (Indian I think) used to patrol round our flats. We had lived there until Dad died)).

    Barbara B. & I to hotel, met Mum and Olive, then to King's Theatre, free show. Saw 'The Lodger' and new Gaumont British News, retaking of Rangoon etc; had a glimpse of Princess Elizabeth.

    Mum staying over night with Olive.

    Had a sort of medical exam today - I was put down 'to leave HKong early' (ie., not immediate or delayed).

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  • 08 Sep 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2015-01-16 21:26
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Sat, 8 Sep 1945

    According to the Daily Mirror, British seamen from the battleship Anson are fired on by Japanese.

     

    The Times (page 4) reports today that Franklin Gimson and Dr. Selwyn-Clarke have been appointed Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

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    Daily Mirror, September 10, 1945, page 8

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

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2015-08-26 17:08
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 8 Sep 1945

    Fine. SE wind.

    Little sit with G. till 10.30am. North of boundary wire.

    Photograph.

    6oz corned beef, 2 tins milk, 2oz egg yolk, ½ lb sugar, 8oz white bread, 5 Pkts Jap. cigs & some pepper & mustard issued. 

    G & V to town.

    Five of us who had been selected to remain for Prison duty asked to make decision whether to stay or go as listed on Tues 11th. Decided to stay at first but altered my decision after. 

    Sat with G Dutch Garden 8-8.30pm.

    Still no mail.

    Drink & chat with G & V Mrs Gandy & Dawes.


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