Any former Royal Signals Regiment or RCSR or military historians recognise this headset and speaker  (see attached pics) found on Stone Hill today. Philip...
BRIAN AND PHILIP My copy of Gwen P's book has an author's note at the beginning saying:- 'Readers of this book may wonder why so little mention is made of the...
That's fascinating, Barbara. Perhaps the double exclamation mark (!!) next to the passage about the St. Stephens film show was from a former internee who...
A short note (I'm rather exhausted!) just to let you know the Reunion ended today with the very moving Canadian memorial service in the Commonwealth War Graves...
Brilliant, Barbara! I join Brian in thanking you for your comments. Geoff Emerson At 10:34 PM 4/12/2011, you wrote: That's fascinating, Barbara. Perhaps the...
The third item here is some correspondence between Ronald Sleap in Cmp 'N' and Pam and Mona Turnbull in Stanley. Still moving after all these years. ...
Brian, I found this interesting site but couldn't find the correspondence you mention. Geoff Emerson At 05:06 AM 6/12/2011, you wrote: The third item here is...
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Dec 6, 2011 11:27 am
Geoff, It's on this page: http://www.tibetanpost.com/tpost.php?op=subsection&id=73 Well done for last week, by the way. A great bunch of people, and clearly...
This lady really did exaggerate about Stanley.... My copy of 'Through Japanese Barbed Wire' still has part of its original paper cover on which is printed...
Sorry to those who had problems with the link - it takes me through to the right page, but obviously doesn't do so for others. Hopefully Tony's link will solve...
Thanks Laura for putting me on to those photos of old Hong Kong on gwulo.com! I am particularly interested in the one taken in the 1950's of the race course,...
Some members may not have seen these leaflets Mabel emailed me. Barbara ... From: Mabel To: Anslow Barbara Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:21 AM Subject:...
The D.T's daily extracts of 1941 news items only mentioned the Far East tension once... until yest, 8th Dec, which was all about the attack on Pearl Harbour in...
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Dec 10, 2011 6:00 am
Barbara, I visited the BAAG exhibition at HKU Library on Thursday, and they had originals of these on display too! Regards Tony ... Barbara, I visited the BAAG...
Thanks to diligent work by Geoff, Gary, Eugenia, Rocky, and a good many others - the Gathering was very well organized and smoothly run! Geoff just mentioned...
There's a large collection of Hong Kong war images here: http://family.webshots.com/album/579354405CVznpx Many are familiar (e.g. from the IWM collection) but...
Five photos were added to a new "Gathering" album. This is an OPEN album and anyone else is welcome to use it as an upload target. Perhaps some of you took...
Hurrah, at last Hong Kong is mentioned in the Daily Telegraph's column Britain at War! almost very other theatre of war has been featured (I have been watching...
Thanks for letting us know about this, Barbara. Yes, it would be rather confusing to many. Yesterday, 15 Dec, was the opening of St Stephen's College Heritage ...
I am a resident of Stanley who has been in Hong Kong for over 20 years. Now retired, I volunteer as a docent in the Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum at...
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Dec 18, 2011 11:11 pm
Tom, I believe it was a mortar bomb - possibly a post-war one. It's a good thing the finders contacted EOD before someone had an accident. Regards Tony...
Thanks Tony. The article appeared in the Chinese newspaper and since I don't read Chinese, I had to piece things together thanks to my interpreter (wife). The...
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Dec 19, 2011 12:22 pm
Tom, Thanks. It was great having Dennis Clarke there. Regards Tony...
I've been thinking about publishing a wartime diary by email on a daily basis, but 70 years late. eg on 1st Feb 2012, you'd receive an email with the diary...
20.12.11 DAVID Would be happy to help with your great war diary idea. My diary is rather mundane and has alot of trivia (it amounts to over 150 typed pages)...
Dear Barbara, Thank you very much for your quick response, and for your generous offer to share your diary. Then I'd better get a move on and get the technical...
This is a great idea and good on both of you! Yes, try it out and hope some others with diaries will respond. Geoff Emerson At 05:16 PM 20/12/2011, you wrote: ...
I think it would be a great idea especially if we could capture some of the unpublished non public domain diaries too. Happy to help too .......there are a...
What a wonderful idea! I've read some of Barbara's diary at the IWM and I second David's plea for the whole thing. I was looking through the Gomes newsletters...
David has a terrific idea about publishing diaries, day by day. I was excited to read his post. My first thought was about the availability of Barbara Anslow's...
