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.
25 Mar 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-05-07 17:06Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 25 Mar 1945Palm Sunday.
Went to see Doreen, Aileen Thirlwell and Pauline Beck.
Worked in afternoon, but there was gramophone music in office so I managed to get away to Way of the Cross.
Reading and enjoying 'Now I see.'
Opened creamed rice. A tin of paste was blown.
Spanish lesson with Irma Mejia.
25 Mar 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-02-23 00:25Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 25 Mar 1945Overcast, cold NE wind.
Clayed old baking oven.
Emergency rations issued to Blocks. (1 Tin meat, 38 biscuits & 8 multi-vit. tablets)
North in talk reckons on things happening here between now & end of April.
No news.
25 Mar 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2016-03-17 15:44Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 25 Mar 1945Brown / Short
