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.
3 Jun 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-05-19 09:22Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 3 Jun 1944Cloudy, showery, improved later.
4Pkts cigs.
Awful tiffin.
Choir practice 5-6pm.
Steve to Concert in Social Hall. Saw M till he came back.
Paper makes it obvious that all Allied efforts are useless. Germans lynched one of our airmen. We seem to be stuck about 20mls S. of Rome.
Letter rec. by C. Thompson ((Perhaps C R W Thomson ?)) tells us Shanghai rec. Canadian parcels in April.
Blackout.
03 Jun 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-05-30 15:25Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 3 Jun 1944Classical Club concert (Esther Barton & Classical Quintette)
B.O
