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.
6 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-01-24 20:45Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 6 Apr 1942Mum and I both feeling better. Was able to get milk for Mum from Baby Clinic. ((A small number of little bottles of fresh milk were went in daily byJaps for children, and a few for the most needy cases in hospital.))
We had fun turning out suitcases ((and enjoying holding Olive's trousseau - lovely silk underwear - which our amah had taken to her in the Chinese hotel.))
Wet and cold.
6 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-03-13 15:26Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 6 Apr 1942Japs having trouble in town? Big centres in Japan in flames, aero factory etc? Russians in Warsaw?
Cookhouse.
Americans not very polite when I enquired about my fridge.
6 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2012-04-09 18:00Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 6 Apr 1942Chartered Accountant A. A. Bremner and his wife (M. B. S.) have a boy, John Alexander Bremner.
Source:
China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3
Stanley Camp Roll
Note:
The Roll gives the birth as 1941.
06 Apr 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2016-04-02 14:25Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 6 Apr 1942
