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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.

  • 9 May 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-04-20 20:54
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 9 May 1943

    Fine.

    Cookhouse.

    Fish.

    ((G))

    Majima to Tokyo. ((Probably Meijima))

    Tunisian Camp’n over except for mopping up.

    Walk with Steve pm.

    ((G))

    Blackout until further orders.

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  • 09 May 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-05-17 14:15
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 9 May 1943

    Sandbach / Myhill

    6.30pm Sacred Music

  • 09 May 1943, John Charter's wartime journal

    Submitted by HK Bill on Thu, 2021-06-17 13:25
    Book / Document: 
    John Charter's wartime journal
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 9 May 1943

    Many happy returns of the day, Betty. How lovely England will be looking at this time of the year. May and June are usually wet and humid months in Hong Kong; in fact the weather generally breaks up halfway through February and really heavy rain falls during May and June, and from thence gradually slackens off, very little falling between September or October and February – this,  from my memory of things. July and August and September are the chief typhoon months.

    This year the weather has been exceptional, hardly any rain since last August. We had a couple of wet spells in early and late March, lasting about a week each, but in between and since we have had cloudless blue skies. The weather at present is delightful, hot and dry with a bright sun but a cool breeze from the North East. The day temperature rises to about 80’ and the nights are pleasant, a sheet or light blanket being necessary. The Japanese allowed bathing again at the beginning of this month. Y and I have not yet been down to the beach. I wonder if there is likely to be a water shortage in Hong Kong.


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