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.
20 May 1945, The Hongkong News
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-02-15 21:3020 May 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2012-05-23 18:09Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 20 May 1945Sewed sheet out of pillow cases. ((I now wonder where the pillow cases came from))
Benediction in afternoon.
'Confirmed' at church:
- Anna Mejia (10)
- Andree de Vleeschouwer (8)
- Flossie James (8)
- Francis Ward (10)
- Solveig Sandberg (10)
- George Halligan (33)
- Humphrey Cruttwell (36)
- Vincent Morrison (29)
20 May 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2015-05-07 15:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 20 May 194520 May 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2015-05-10 15:16Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 20 May 1945WHIT SUNDAY - Sandbach / Wittenbach
20 May 1945, Harry Ching's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-05-16 15:36Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 20 May 1945((Following text not dated:))
No food at Rosary Hill by month end for Portuguese refuse go. Enemy nationals can't go Macao.
Downstairs Jap family suddenly move to Robinson Road. Replaced by single man. Upstairs now also Jap family. Naughty kids. Putting grilles on doors.
Night alerts continue despite rain. But no planes heard. Three alerts at night on 18th May. No bombs or firing
