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.
8 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-30 16:19Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 8 Jan 1944Fine, cold.
Canteen buyer 126.
With Steve pm.
08 Jan 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2017-01-19 16:11Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 8 Jan 1944Children’s concert (p. Eileen Grant & Azalea Reynolds)
08 Jan 1944, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong
Submitted by Alison Gerrard on Fri, 2019-05-17 13:55Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 8 Jan 1944Today I saw Prof. Digby re my in growing toe-nail and tho. he has been attending to it for a while and endeavouring to care by Heath Robinson arrangement of thread, he has now decided to operate and I'm to enter Tweed Bay Hospital tomorrow evening and get it cut on Monday morning. The trouble with my toe has been due to shoes which are of course a serious problem in this camp. My own ones are completely worn out and I've had to wear rubbers and another pair of shoes, the good are not my own and sharp-toed and consequently my left big toe has suffered.
