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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.

  • 21 Sep 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2013-07-03 23:00
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 21 Sep 1945

    SIX P.O.W.s DIED ON VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA

    Grim Evidence of Jap Brutality

    SYDNEY, Thursday,

    Royal Navy hospital ship, Oxfordshire, brought to Australia the first, grim evidence of Jap brutality when it berthed at Brisbane to-day.

    Six of the 400 P.O.W and ínternees from Hongkong died during the voyage, and 87 were so emaciated   that they had to be taken off the ship in stretchers.  

    Even well passengers showed signs of their ordeal.        

    Many civilian patients and Indian Army personnel were too ill to be interviewed.      

    Others described the almost unbelievable horrors which became commonplace to them.

    A "water cure" was the favourite torture with the Japs.

    A private of a Middlesex Regiment said the Jap policy was one of slow, scientific murder.

    He added that the bombing of Hongkong had been the greatest factor in keeping up the morale of the prisoners.

    Source

    Canberra Times, September 21, 1945, page 1

     

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  • 21 Sep 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-09-12 17:01
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 21 Sep 1945

    Fine all day, slight swell. SW wind, nil sighted.

    M/s still ahead. She turned back at 9.00pm.

  • REPATRIATION NOTICE NO. 2

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2022-03-22 11:42
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    Repatriation notices
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 21 Sep 1945

    REPATRIATION NOTICE NO. 2

    EMBARKATION FOR UNITED KINGDOM, CEYLON and INDIA

    The persons in this List are additional to those in List No. 1.

    The following person should assemble at STANLEY at 10 a.m. on SATURDAY 22nd September, 1945:—

    Mrs. D. N. Shields.

    The following persons should assemble at QUEENS PIER at 10 a.m. on SATURDAY 22nd September, 1945, or, in the case of Kowloon residents, board H.M.S. “SMITER” at Kowloon Wharves:—

    Miss D. P. Geen Miss V. Brett Miss M. Webster Miss P. McClellan, Miss S. H. Andrews, Mrs M. Chubb and child, Mr T. A. Hughes (H.K Police). Mr T. Collins H.K. Police). Mr Blackbourn (H.K. Police). Mr S. H. Dowman (H.K. Police). Mr J. R. Bentley (H.K. Police). Mr F. E. Channing (H.K. Police). Mr W. Gowans (H.K. Police). Mr M. Reynolds (H.K. Police). Mr & Mrs C. Littler, Mr G. V. White (H.K. Police). Mr A. W. Smith (H.K. Police). Mr G.S. Fender (H.K. Police). Mr T. E. Maycock (H.K. Police). Mr G.N. Davitt (H.K. Police), Mr C.S. Pile (H.K. Police), Mr A. C. C. Stewart (H.K. Police). Mr B. C. Fay (H.K. Police). Mr T. Pilkington (H. K. Police). Mr W. N. Winslade (H.K. Police) Mr W.L. Kinloch (H.K. Police) Mr J. Harris (H.K. Police). Mr J. Goodman (H.K. Police), Mr W E Astley (H K Police) Mr J Allen (H K Police) Mr J MacDonald (H K Police) Mr S J Bradsell (H K Police) Mr G S Alexander (H K Police) Mr W H Summers (H K Police) Mr H J Baldwin (H K Police) Mr K J Douche (H K Police) Mr C Dowman (H K Police) Mr H T Matches (H K Police) Mr W G Morrison (HK Police) Mr B D Lay (H K Police) Miss C B Robinson, Miss A M Harrington, Miss M A Wilson, Mr Mr R M Wood (P W D), Mr S Parker (HK Police) Mr H W Jenner (H K Police) Mr T R Hunter (H K Police) Mr C Mottram (H K Police) Mr D Clark (H K Police) Mr J R H Clements (H K Police) Mr G C Moss (H K Police) Mr A Wallingford (H K Police) Mr A Shaw (H K Police) Mr W L Clark (H K Police) Mr S Innes (H K Police) Miss C I Watson, Miss D M Evans, Miss F A Cranfield, Miss M L Everett.

    REPATRIATION OFFICER.
    H.K. & S’hai Bank Bldg, 1st.fl,
    (Telephone No. 39642)
    21st Sept. 1945.

    Published on p.2 of SCMP for 21 Sep 1945.


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