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.
28 Nov 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2014-01-07 14:35Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 28 Nov 1944Death of 74 year old architect Ernest Manning Hazeland.
Before being sent to Stanley he was held in room 507 of the Mee CHow Hotel.
His wife Helene Clare is also an internee.
Sources:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 188
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367497
28 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-12-18 16:54Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 28 Nov 1944Overcast thin mist, a little drier, E ground wind.
Sewing shop.
Water on.
Paper has no E. news whatever but plenty of tripe about Leyte.
Rumours re receipt of Parcels on 13th Dec & repatriation of women & childrens [sic] have grown stronger.
Planes over W to E & E to W about midn’t. Heavy stuff dropped to the W.
28 Nov 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-11-22 21:24Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 28 Nov 1944Death of Ernest Mason Hazeland (74)
Rec'd. Y3.33 workers' pay
