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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


19 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 07:21 PM PST

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Mon, 19 Oct 1942

Norah Witchell's 20th birthday, we made her a card - lettering by Olive, verse by me, drawing by Dorothy. ((Norah had recently joined us 3 in the hospital office as a stenographer.   Tragically  In 1950, as Norah Stutchbury, she was murdered in Malaya by terrorists.))

19 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 30 Sep 2012 08:50 PM PDT

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Mon, 19 Oct 1942

Cloudy & cooler.

Chinese guard left us with cigs & wine to sell for him at 2a.m.

Road closed 10am to 1PM but nothing happened.

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