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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.

  • 2 Jul 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-06-30 02:15
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 2 Jul 1943

    ((G))

    Worked in hosp. on alteration for fumigator.

    Swim pm.

    ((G))

    Rest of bank people arrived to Bung.”E”. They say news is extraordinarily good.

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  • 2 Jul 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2014-06-14 18:12
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 2 Jul 1943

    Diarist Eric MacNider tells us that 14 bankers arrived in Stanley today, and the same number is given by George Gerrard in his retrospective entry of July 7. R. E. Jones also notes the arrival of the 'rest of the bankers' while outside the borders of Hong Kong the British Army Aid Group will soon learn that most of the bankers have entered Stanley today.

    One of their number is Hugo Foy. Like many of the other bankers, he's been active in raising funds for the relief of the internees he's now joining. But something he's done will catch up with him - he will be the only HSBC employee to be arrested while in camp. Why is not known.

    Sources:

    MacNider: List in the MacNider Papers, attached to the Diary

    BAAG: Waichow Intelligence Summary, 11/7/43

    Foy: SCMP, September 4, 1946, p. 1

  • 02 Jul 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-06-21 14:39
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 2 Jul 1943

    14 Bank people arrived in camp


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