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.
21 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-12-18 16:43Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 21 Nov 1944Fine, dry.
Started on Tinsmiths’ shop, wood chopping & grass cutting.
Lamp glass & hammer to Steve.
Oil & sugar issued.
Convoy arrived.
Lorry with veg 6.30pm.
Roosevelt promises something good before New Year. Metz entered 19th & other advances made on Western Front. US troops now 7mls inside German border. Japs claim many more sinkings around Leyte & 6 s/ms in waters around Japan.
21 Nov 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-11-27 14:25Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 21 Nov 1944Death - Major C.M. Manners, O.B.E. (62)
21 Nov 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2015-12-09 19:24Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 21 Nov 1944Death of (retired) Major Charles Manners Manners.
For Manners role in the hostilities see:
