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.
1 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-01-24 20:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 1 Apr 1942Mum still ill. Dr came and she had her bread rusked. ((One kitchen on ground floor in Married Quarters was a sort of Diet Kitchen & Baby Clinic, where bread was rusked mainly for babies and toddlers.))
I'm still very tired and can't taste food, not even meat cake.
1 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-03-13 15:24Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 1 Apr 1942Finer day. Optimism OK.
01 Apr 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2016-04-02 14:22Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 1 Apr 1942Good weather in afternoon.