70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.
01 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-12-18 16:17Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 1 Nov 1944Fine. E wind.
New kitchen taken over by A1-4.
Demolishing old kitchen & woodchopping.
With Steve pm.
Hertogenbosch captured 28th Nov ((should be 'Oct')). Japs have confusing details re their attacks on Leyte air-fields.
01 Nov 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-01-26 15:27Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 1 Nov 1944((Following text not dated:))
Upstairs admit moving out. Claim careful get Chinese tenant replace. Meanwhile ask me caretake and free phone, but then don't give me key. We nervous burglars.
Throughout November alerts almost daily. Planes heard but no bombs. Dropping mines?
01 Nov 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-10-11 15:37Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 1 Nov 1944H.C. Service of commemoration for Faithful Departed (Brown, Rose, Sandbach (G), Forster (E) Short)
10% cut in rice
