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 Apr - 11 May 1944, Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary
Submitted by barbaramerchant on Sun, 2013-09-15 16:45Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 26 Apr 1944 to Thu, 11 May 1944
Notes:
26/4/44 - To HK for Pass today
2/5/44 - Gas Bill 20.30
3/5/44 - Mend aluminium pot 1.-Supporting information:
26 Apr 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-04-03 21:33Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 26 Apr 1944Overcast, drizzly & humid.
Ground rice for bread.
With Steve pm.
Food & repat. rumours still rife.
26 Apr 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-04-25 10:32Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 26 Apr 1944Ballet “Temujin” (7 acts) from book “Earth is the Lord’s” by Taylor Caldwell (p. Carol Bateman; costumes, Dick Olive; Stage, EMB Dyson; Music, Betty Drown) (Harry Tyler, Lydia Hutchinson, Peggy Hunter, Hugh Goldie, Johnny Martin, Al((?? unclear)) Farquhar, Diana Dodwell, Wallace Kinloch, J. Barnett, Harry Talbot, Steve Mo((?? unclear - maybe J S Moring?)), Viv. Garton, Marie Barton, Richard Mills, etc.) (Synopsis read by Raymond Hughes.)
