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.
17 Apr 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Fri, 2012-05-11 16:01Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Apr 1945Very hot.
No air raid.
Bridge in afternoon with Dick Cloake, Betty Drown and Mr Simmons in our room.
Kitchen staff of American and Married Quarters walked out.
17 Apr 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2014-12-30 22:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Apr 1945Death of James Owens, mariner, aged 44.
He was one of the Stanley Camp's Irish community. His father (also James) had died in 1934 and his mother Annie in 1939. His brother Frank drowned at sea in 1915. The family were from Baltray, County Louth.
Source:
http://www.termonfeckinhistory.ie/graveyard_inscriptions_17.html
17 Apr 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-04-03 11:47Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Apr 1945Warm, cloudy. S wind.
Door channel [?] in Block 13.
German lesson aft.
Fronts in E. now known as Central Front.
Cookhse staffs walked out but fresh squads organised.
17 Apr 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2017-04-17 11:15Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Apr 1945Death - James Owens (44)
