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.
13 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-03-04 11:05Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Oct 1942Not feeling so sure that our men are all right. Yet no good worrying. Mabel is taking it well.
Mrs. M. E. Blair died (in her fifties).
Dr Selwyn-Clarke came, gave us girls (in office) sweets between us.
Lilian Hope has gone to Shanghai and thence to Canada.
13 Oct 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2012-09-08 18:44Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Oct 1942Death of Mabel Evelyn Blair, aged 58.
She was the wife of K. Blair and the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. Walker of Sydney.
Source:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271
13 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:21Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Oct 1942Dr.Selwyn-Clarke came to camp.
Germans being forced back along the whole front.
13 Oct 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 23:10Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Oct 1942Death of Mabel Evelyn Blair (58), wife of KG Blair
