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.
27 Sep 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Fri, 2012-06-08 15:01Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 27 Sep 1945Wind getting up.
Got talking to a ginger-haired steward. I think they are overworked with us being on board. He says we're the third lot of passengers they've carried, they carried 100 evacuee children from Canada back to UK. ((Clifton anxious that Mabel 'won't wait for him')) We prayed that she would.
27 Sep 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2015-06-18 16:53Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 27 Sep 1945Those left in Stanley live the dream today: they're served 'bangers and mash' (sausages and mashed potato). This traditional English meal was one of the dishes most fantasised about during internment.
Source:
China Mail, September 28, 1945, 2
27 Sep 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-09-12 17:06Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 27 Sep 1945Cooler.
Passengers for Aust. disembarked 11am.
Underway 4pm after Lady Louis Mountbatten had given us a speech & we had embarked 400 Naval ratings.
£2 issued.
