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.
22 Dec 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2012-03-13 18:06Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 22 Dec 1942A Jap doctor visited. Hospital closed to visitors, and Block 13 roped off ((in Indian Quarters where the Williams family lived - Mr. B. (Health Inspector), Mrs. L., Patricia 4, David 2: another boy Raymond born July 1945)).
They haven't definitely put off all the festivities as yet.
Shanghailanders now been put off to Thursday.
Mr. S. Lillicrap died this morning - there was never any hope.
Mr Kopeczky had a parcel – clothes. Loads of people had parcels ((from friends in HK)) today.
22 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-12-14 15:26Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 22 Dec 194222 Dec 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2012-12-19 17:03Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 22 Dec 1942Death of Samuel Lillicrap aged 53. He formerly worked for the Hong Kong Bowling Alley.
Source:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2011, 186
22 Dec 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-11-08 13:27Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 22 Dec 1942Jap. Doctor visited camp; Bl. 13 cordoned off.
Death of Samuel Lillicrap (53).
