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.
16 Feb 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-02-01 20:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 16 Feb 1943((G.))
Rehearsal 11 AM.
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Dress rehearsal 6PM.
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Dancing to 10PM.
Cloudy & cold.
16 Feb 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2014-06-03 21:54Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 16 Feb 1943The second British Community Council has its first meeting. Mrs A. Raymond, the representative of the Married Quarters, is the only woman to serve on any of the governing councils.
Former internee Alfred James Hall, 56, who'd been a goods inspector with Jardine Matheson, dies in the French Hospital.
Sources:
BCC: John Stericker, Captive Colony, 1945, Chapter IX, page 1
Hall: Greg Leck, Captives of Empire, 2006, 629
16 Feb 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2017-02-08 14:35Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 16 Feb 1943Issue of 5 pkts. Red Lion $3.00.
Smith "Aeroplanes"
