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.
12 Jul 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-02-19 20:46Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 12 Jul 1942We ((Dorothy Holloway, Olive and I)) started having one Sunday in 3 entirely free from hosp. office work.
12 Jul 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2012-03-10 18:08Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 12 Jul 1942Bus loads of Chinese brought in, put in launches and many dead pushed over the side, also some still alive.
Source:
Diary of M. L. Bevan: IWM, 523.1 (Bevan)
12 Jul 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-06-26 16:54Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 12 Jul 1942Allies have decided to clear the Japs out of Far East. Russians driving Germans back & Allies driving them back in Lybia. “Von Tripitz” bottled up in Norway & being bombed.
Special Roll Call tonight.
Fine but humid.
Pincer movement in Yunnan against Japs.
12 Jul 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-07-03 17:03Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 12 Jul 1942Sunday. We had services in 3rd class dining room, nice attendance.
One is getting used to the rocking and swaying. I can take it alright now.
12 Jul 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-06-27 13:43Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 12 Jul 1942(Mackenzie Dow – “Humble”) / Martin
