Wednesday, February 26, 2014

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


27 Feb 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 31 Dec 2011 05:55 AM PST

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R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-02-27

Cookhouse all day. Russians interned? (Fridge, cooker & boiler taken out of our flat & used elsewhere pal)

27 Feb 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:07 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-02-27

1 extra bread, and PORRIDGE in afternoon and evening, and stewed fruit and suspicion of custard after tiffin.

((The porridge, from canteen, was the most fantastic morale builder.  For a few precious evenings, the electric cookers in one of the former Married Q. kitchens were made available to us by our kitchen staff.  Inevitable queue of people waiting their turn to go in with their tins to cook up their little bits.  Surprising discovery that one internee was hogging a ring to herself for long time - actually boiling her sheets because 'she always boiled her sheets'.))

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