Everything tagged: Diary / Memoir

The following exerpts of Ella Buuck's diary were kindly provided by Laura Darnell (nee Zeigler).

The following exerpts of Rev. Buuck's autobiographical booklet were kindly provided by Laura Darnell (nee Zeigler).

I (David) have split it up into days according to how events match dates in his wife Ella's diary.

John's son Anthony has generously given the text of his father's journal to be made available here on Gwulo. Anthony has also published the journal in printed form as the book "The First Shall Be Last". The book version is an expanded copy, adding photographs, additional background information, and text from his mother Yvonne's memoir that add her experiences of these events. The book can be ordered from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/First-Shall-Be-Last-Journal/dp/1786233967

This is Barbara's diary of life in Hong Kong in the wartime period. She has also added later comments, ((shown in italics & double brackets, like this)). 

Here is Barbara's introduction:

First, details of the Redwood family in 1941:

In November 1941, Mum was 46, my sister Olive 25, Mabel 18 and I almost 23. 

Notes from Alison McEwan:

I've recently started transcribing a diary in my family's possession [...]

How my father Colin McEwan came by it we don't know, but it turned up as we slowly went through my parents' books.

It is a hardbacked notebook written in pencil from 28th Dec 1940 thro' to 27th Oct 1945. The diarist is an RE Jones who Tony [Banham] has identified as a Prison Officer, it is already clear he was the prison hangman too! His wife Marj had already been sent to Australia, and they had a baby daughter born 22nd Jan 1940 called Rae.