Diary pages from this date

B.M. Onions ￥200 lb, cigs ￥31 for 10

Death – J.J. Osborne (57) formerly of H.K.G.P.O. (typhus) 

5 yrs. since Marj went away. I’ve forgotten what married life was like now.

Cooler, showery, E wind. 

Lep. window.

German lesson.

Cigs’ up to 50Y per packet.

Set more pots for G ∴ ((He's planting more potatoes, replacing the ones he dug up yesterday))

Worked in a.m.

In afternoon, visited Clifton in hospital, and Mrs Hamilton, Mr Poyntz and Mrs Stratton. ((I can't recall which Mrs Hamilton I visited, it was probably the one who lived in a room near we Redwoods in the Married Quarters.  I only knew her as 'Mrs Hamilton' as in those days young people didn't call their elders by their Christian names which we didn't know.))

J.J. Osborne died.

Practised bridge with Peggy and Dick Cloake at Peggy's.

Mr Ingram came for cigarettes. 

Bridge.

Death of John Joseph Osborne a 57 year old post office employee.

Source:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 188

Note:

The Osborne family were probably Eurasian, and as such had a degree of choice as to whether they entered Stanley. Alfred Richard Osborne and his family were also in camp, while Patrick William Osborne remained uninterned.