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.
7 - 18 Jan 1944, Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary
Submitted by barbaramerchant on Sun, 2013-09-15 15:36Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 7 Jan 1944 to Tue, 18 Jan 1944
Notes:
7/1/44 - 15 ((catties)) Ration flour 30.-
12th - Rice ration 7 1/2 ((catties))
((Suggests Eurasians could get both flour and rice on ration))
12th - bought Kerosene Heater ¥5.00
18/1/44 - ((Electricity)) Meter Reading lower 2603 Light 2928Supporting information:
7 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-30 16:18Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 7 Jan 1944Fine, cold wind.
Wrote music, Choir practice 5.30.
With Steve after.
Par.[?] wood.
Canteen lists 126.
Have run out of cigs, matches, food, treacle etc all at once so life is a bit lousy.
07 Jan 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2017-01-19 16:11Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 7 Jan 1944Children’s concert (p. Eileen Grant & Azalea Reynolds)
