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 Dec 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-16 18:027 Dec 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2014-01-06 18:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 7 Dec 1944Death of Achilles George Dann, a 56 year old commercial traveller.
Before being sent to Stanley he was held in room 305 of the Stag Hotel.
Sources:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 188
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367487
Note:
The CWGC site wrongly records his death as 25/11/44:
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3169475/DANN,%20ACHILLES%20GEORGE
07 Dec 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-12-22 11:10Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 7 Dec 1944Colder, drizzly & miserable all day.
Worked in Pengelly’s shop.
Coffee with Steve, noon.
Lorry with nothing 5pm.
No E ((European)) news in paper.
Making crib board for Mrs Brown. ((MW Brown?))
07 Dec 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2016-12-09 10:27
