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 Jul 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-06-30 03:48Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 16 Jul 194316 Jul 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2014-06-23 23:14Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 16 Jul 1943The last group of bankers and their families arrives in from town today - 17 British, 10 Dutch and 2 Norwegians according to the Red Cross, although George Gerrard's diary gives the British figure as 18.
The British contingent comprises G. A. Leiper and his wife Helen, the McClatchie, Davis and Perry families, H. F. Philips, Richard Olive, A. M. Mack and Mercantile Bank manager Harry Hawkins.
The Belgian bankers - at least three in number - are allowed to remain in town.
Source:
Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, list attached to General Letter No. 61/43, 19 July 1943 BG017 07-061
16 Jul 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by chrisbartlett on Wed, 2014-07-16 22:45Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 16 Jul 1943Youth concert ((for details see 15th July))
Maejima visits Camp
