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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

14 Jan 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 03:27 AM PDT

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Barbara Anslow's diary
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Fri, 14 Jan 1944

Mrs Grace Rose Smith (75) died.  She was blind.

Mabel and I were digging a garden on our tiny allotment on the ex-football ground, when Mabel fell over the edge, 16 feet on to the concrete slope leading to the hospital.   She arrived at the feet of Dr. Hackett, and Nursing Sisters Mrs. M. J. Staple and Miss I. Warbrick ((who were blood sisters)).

When I got down to Mabel, she was conscious but dazed, half-sitting on one side.   I raced to hospital to get a stretcher, and saw her taken to the hospital then ran to find Clifton - her new boyfriend - and my Mum.  Olive heard about it while in the water queue.

There was a blackout that night, but somehow Professor Digby and the others worked like Trojans to see to Mabel.

14 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 12:29 AM PST

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R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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Fri, 14 Jan 1944

Fine, moderate.

Appointment made with Dr. Hargreaves.

Choir practice 5.30pm.

With Steve after.

War news good for us.

Black-out orders more strictly enforced.

Wrote music am.
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