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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


28 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:31 PM PST

Book / Document: 
Date(s) of events described: 
Mon, 28 Dec 1942

Cookhouse.

News good if true.

No G.

12 months since saw Rob.

Cushion cover.

28 Dec 1942, Memories of the trip from Stanley Camp to Shanghai

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 08:29 PM PST

Date(s) of events described: 
Mon, 28 Dec 1942

Four days later ((ie 28th Dec, 1942)) we docked in Shanghai and were told to get off the ship. We all got off and stood in a group on the dock not knowing what to do, no one paid any attention to us and we just stood there in the dark waiting for someone to tell us what to do - we had lost all initiative in Stanley.

Eventually an old charcoal driven bus chartered by the British Residence Association in Shanghai took us to the Cathedral where we were registered and given some clothing and funds by the Association. What a change from Stanley!

In the next few weeks we were again interened in various camps in the Shanghai area where we stayed until late August 1945.

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