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 Sep 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2012-11-18 15:38Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 19 Sep 1944They will pray for Japs' prisoners
A service of remembrance and intercession for the people of Burma, Malaya, Hongkong and Borneo and for prisoners of war and civilian internees in the Far East, will be held in St. Paul's Cathedral at 5.30 p.m. on September 21. The sermon will be preached by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Source:
Daily Express, page 3
19 Sep 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2014-09-05 15:28Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 19 Sep 1944Cloudy, windy & cooler.
Thiamin.
Back order salt made up.
Allied Airborne Troops landed on Dutch German border 17th. N. bank of Rhine. Metz attacked. Battle for Warsaw commenced. Soviets made a deep breach in German line N of Bauska.
With Steve pm.
Majority of people no smokes now
