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 Dec 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2012-03-13 18:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 26 Dec 1942Post cards from Shamshuipo - I had one from dear old Harry Chalcroft! ((one of Olive's ex-boyfriends)). Neither Olive nor Mabel had one. Rosaleen had 4 from friends, but none from Bert, her Royal Scots husband. ((We didn't know then that The Royal Scots had been taken to Japan 2 months earlier on the 'Lisbon Maru' which was sunk. Bert survived, but his marriage to R didn't after the war.))
Ate a whole tin of M & V tonight, it was a mistake but I would do it; and we had salmon chow fan.
26 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-12-14 15:37Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 26 Dec 1942Not such a good day. G got card from hubby. Spoke of breaking up.
((G.))
26 Dec 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2017-01-03 15:52Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 26 Dec 1942Xmas cards rec'd from S.S.PO
