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 Nov 1943, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-03-19 18:2219 Nov 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-10-26 18:12Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 19 Nov 1943Cold 52’ ((11 degrees celcius)).
Choir practice 6-7pm & then with Steve. Black-out cancelled.
Murphy broadcast from Port. E. re getting us out? 25,000 Japs wiped out 40 klmts from HK?
Last night raid accounted for many Japs & Indians & unfortunately Chinese too.
19 Nov 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-11-10 16:37Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 19 Nov 1943To Mrs. Joan A.M. King, a daughter Fiona Katherine King. (f. Kinloch)
19 Nov 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2015-12-06 19:44Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 19 Nov 1943Birth of Katherine Fiona Kinlock.
She's the daughter of policeman Wallace Kinlock/Kinloch and his wife Joan.
Source:
China Mail, September 15, 1943, 3
Note: Constance Murrays's diary gives the 17th. for the birth of 'Fiona K. K. K.'.
