70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
14 Jan 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2012-03-31 18:27Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 14 Jan 1944Mrs Grace Rose Smith (75) died. She was blind.
Mabel and I were digging a garden on our tiny allotment on the ex-football ground, when Mabel fell over the edge, 16 feet on to the concrete slope leading to the hospital. She arrived at the feet of Dr. Hackett, and Nursing Sisters Mrs. M. J. Staple and Miss I. Warbrick ((who were blood sisters)).
When I got down to Mabel, she was conscious but dazed, half-sitting on one side, being tended by Dr Hackett etc. I raced to hospital to get a stretcher, and saw her taken to the hospital. She was wearing grey slacks (once Dad's trousers), an old converted shirt of Clifton's, her red white and blue jumper and Welfare shoes; also her best mosquito net camp-made pants which (and she was most disgusted) they cut off her. Then I ran to find Clifton - her new boyfriend - and my Mum, who was playing bridge with the Tribbles. Olive heard about it while in the water queue.
There was a blackout that night, but somehow Professor Digby and the others worked like Trojans to see to Mabel.
14 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-30 16:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 14 Jan 1944Fine, moderate.
Appointment made with Dr. Hargreaves.
Choir practice 5.30pm.
With Steve after.
War news good for us.
Black-out orders more strictly enforced.
Wrote music am.
14 Jan 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2015-12-17 21:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 14 Jan 1944Death from cancer of Grace Rose Smith, aged 75. Mrs. Smith, who was blind, had a daughter and grandson in camp.
Source:
Philip Cracknell at http://battleforhongkong.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/stanley-military-cemeter...
14 Jan 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2017-01-19 16:15Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 14 Jan 1944Death – Mrs. Grace Rosa Smith (76)
B.O.
14 Jan 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Submitted by ssuni86 on Wed, 2019-02-27 22:53Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 14 Jan 1944OBJECTIVE: Fly reconnaissance mission over Hong Kong
RESULTS: Reconnaissance photographs are taken that show a 325-foot ship sinking in the channel where B-24s laid mines in Victoria Harbor on January 11.
TIME OVER TARGET: Unknown, but during daylight
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Unknown, but likely a single F-4 or F-5 from the 21st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: Unknown
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None
SOURCES: Original mission reports and other documents in the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
Information compiled by Steven K. Bailey, author of Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945 (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2019).
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