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 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2012-02-22 21:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 16 Aug 1942We went swimming - including Mum, her first attempt in Stanley, with a roll-on suspender belt underneath costume. So gorgeous, able to wallow in that lovely warm water. ((no hot water to wash ourselves or clothes in the Blocks)).
Talking about writing to Golly Anslow ((Francis Joseph, son of F.P. Anslow who worked in the hospital office, Golly often came to talk to his Dad as they weren't billeted together. Little did I think then he and I would be married 6 years later.))
16 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-07-09 21:34Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 16 Aug 1942Swim A.M.
Jap paper full of Axis victories etc.
16 Aug 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-07-20 20:01Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 16 Aug 1942Today we again had services in Thode’s room. It being Ziegler’s 20th anniversary, she treated us all to beer.
16 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Richard Iwan Jones on Thu, 2014-07-17 15:13Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 16 Aug 1942Shortage of paper (res. To make own Sept. ration cards)
(Rose - “What is truth?”) / Maj. R. Ponting, SA
