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27 Nov 1942, The Diary of Mrs Grace Smith

08 Oct 1942, The Diary of Mrs Grace Smith

15 Dec 1942 to 12 Feb 1943, The Diary of Mrs Grace Smith

Date(s) of events described: 
Tuesday, December 15, 1942 to Friday, February 12, 1943

08 Dec 1941, The Diary of Mrs Grace Smith

Date(s) of events described: 
Monday, December 8, 1941 to Saturday, January 24, 1942

Diary - opening pages

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1941

The little notebook that became Mrs Grace Smith’s diary of her time in Stanley Internment camp was not shiny and new. We might surmise that it had once belonged to a teacher. It appears to show part of their weekly timetable, teaching Forms 3A and 3B.

Grace Smith's Diary

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1941

It is remarkable that this battered little notebook, measuring only 8cm x 6cm, has survived as at least a partial record of Grace Smith's time in Stanley Internment Camp some 80 years ago.

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1942

[Left page] Crossed out - illegible

The Diary of Mrs Grace Smith - the blind lady of Stanley Internment Camp

This is part of the story of Mrs Grace Smith (John Anton-Smith's grandmother), a blind lady who was brought from the UK to Hong Kong to be looked after by her son, Raymond. He employed a lady known only as Chan, who became a devoted companion, to drive her around and otherwise see to her needs. John inherited this battered little diary, measuring only 6cm x 8cm, in which Grace, with the help of an unknown scribe, recounted various events during her time in Stanley Internment Camp.

Review of the book ‘King Hui’ – published 2007

This review does not need the catch-all subtitle, “The man who owned all the opium in Hong Kong” as the book is full to the brim with 350 pages of dense and fascinating information of a life that stretches from 1914 till 1993,as told to Jonathan Chamberlain, of which pages 126 to 196, record all his adventures under the Japanese occupation.

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