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 Jun 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-02-13 21:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 16 Jun 1942Up early. Raining, so got into my shorts, borrowed Mrs G's clogs and short mack, and hurried up to admin. bungalow on hill. Heaps of people waiting there - men for the ration lorry; some to collect parcels sent them from people in town, and nurses waiting to go to B. Rd Hosp. After a long wait, Mr Nielson came over and said the rain was stopping the arrival today. The hopes of Mabel coming have almost diminished again, because during the day I've heard of heaps of people who had been agitating to come from the hospital into camp. Blister on foot from clogs in the rain on an incline in a hurry.
16 Jun 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2012-05-19 21:09Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 16 Jun 1942Showery.
News of Allied successes in Midway etc confirmed.
16 Jun 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2017-04-17 11:40Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 16 Jun 1942Parcels for bungalows.
Bradbury returned from skinning tiger.
