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 Apr 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2012-06-06 15:55Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Apr 1943Grayburn and Streatfield are moved again.
This time they're taken by car to Stanley Prison where they're held in much improved conditions. Each has a cell to himself and exercise periods and baths are provided.
Their arrival is recorded in the diary of George Wright-Nooth:
Grayburn brought to Stanley chained to Streatfield....
It seems from Streatfield's account that they were both roped up, but not to each other.
Sources:
E. P. Streatfield, Account, page 5, in Hong Kong Public Records Office, HKMS100-1-6; Maurice Collis, Wayfoong, 1965, 226-227
George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 157
13 Apr 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-04-12 15:06Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Apr 194313 Apr 1943, Harry Ching's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-08-31 19:37Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Apr 194313th April Grayburn and Streatfield taken away in a.m. bound with rope. Despondent.
13 Apr 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-04-19 14:48Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 13 Apr 1943Grayburn, Streatfield brought to gaol
MacNamara "Clemenceau"
