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.
26 Jan 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-04-22 22:03Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 26 Jan 194526 Jan 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2013-06-24 22:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 26 Jan 1945Journalist Eric MacNider writes in his diary that a woman has been brought before the camp tribunal for requesting a double-decker wooden bed, which she then chopped up to use for firewood.
Source:
Christina Twomey, Australia's Forgotten Prisoners, 2007, 72
26 Jan 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-01-02 12:28Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 26 Jan 1945Low cloud, cold NE wind.
Outside roll-call 8.30am.
Workshop.
Steve for coffee, gave me 2 pkts cigs & Y100.
Rice flour ½ lb Y25. Noodles - Y10.30 ¼ lb & Sugar 9.45 ¼ lb.
Fixed chatty for Mrs W.
20 to town rice loading.
“Shell” House, Dockyards & part of Wanchai damaged. Kowloon go-downs, five ships sunk.
Danzig captured. Hitler & Himmler at the front. German generals have been given a free hand. Japan raided 23rd.
26 Jan 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2017-01-06 14:49Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 26 Jan 1945Outdoor a.m. roll call
No ration lorry - only greens
