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.
06 Dec 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-12-22 11:09Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 6 Dec 1944Overcast, NE wind.
Brick cleaning.
Dr.Selwyn-Clark released from Gaol & he, his wife & child went in to HK.
Lorry with wood 3pm.
Worlds biggest battleship to be launched in Britain shortly & she may appear in the Pacific. No European news. Usual claims re Leyte area. Germans report proposed use of Y3s against New York.
Played crib with Mrs Brown aft. ((MW Brown?))
Exercise of British fleet in Indian Ocean reported.
06 Dec 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-11-22 21:28Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 6 Dec 1944Mrs & Mary Selwyn-Clarke left Camp for Kowloon
