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 Apr 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-04-12 22:03Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 22 Apr 194322 Apr 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-04-19 14:52Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 22 Apr 1943Issue of 1lb. flour ?? ((unclear)) siege biscuits
Masefield's "Good Friday" (Charter, Mills, W Cox, Wittenberg, Laurensz)
(("Good Friday" is a poem by British writer and Poet Laureate, John Masefield. Not sure who the other, unlinked performers' names refer to.
AJ Savitsky painted this portrait of Richard Mills in character:
RW Mills as Pontius Pilate in Good Friday - 19430422.jpg, by AJ Savitsky))
22 Apr 1943, W J Carrie's wartime diary
Submitted by billagee on Thu, 2019-09-19 23:13Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 22 Apr 1943Adored, Letter No.5 of 12/7/42 has at last turned up with one from Joy. No sign of Nos. 1, 2 and 3 yet or any later ones. Though it's so long ago - it's lovely to get it.
