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 Aug 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-07-26 01:27Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Aug 194317 Aug 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-08-18 21:22Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Aug 1943Death of former school teacher Marion Potter, aged 81, from lymph adenoma and myocardial degeneration.
Before internment she'd been held in room 203 of the New Asia Hotel.
Sources:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, HKUP, 2008, Appendix 3
stanley-military-cemetery-hong-kong.htmlhttp://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367491
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For further information see
17 Aug 1943, Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary
Submitted by barbaramerchant on Sat, 2013-09-14 15:17Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Aug 1943
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P.M. Guests.....Certo. To tea with bowl custard each with cherry, and then tea with pancakes. ((Shorthand reads “Gave them bowl(?) of custard for Joyce who was down again with malaria”.))
((Most likely to be May Peveril Guest (nee Fincher) and her children))
Supporting information:
17 Aug 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-08-19 10:52Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 17 Aug 1943Death of Miss Marion Potter (82)
"A for apple, B for bed" (Ream)
