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.
19 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-03-04 11:21Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 19 Oct 1942Norah Witchell's 20th birthday, we made her a card - lettering by Olive, verse by me, drawing by Dorothy. ((Norah had recently joined us 3 in the hospital office as a stenographer. Tragically In 1950, as Norah Stutchbury, she was murdered in Malaya by terrorists.))
19 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:50Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 19 Oct 1942Cloudy & cooler.
Chinese guard left us with cigs & wine to sell for him at 2a.m.
Road closed 10am to 1PM but nothing happened.
