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.
09 Apr 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-04-03 11:30Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 9 Apr 1945Planes over 4am.
Overcast, damp, NE wind.
Odd jobs today.
In latest raid on Tokyo propaganda leaflets dropped. Japs comment about it seems to indicate that their powers that be are very concerned & do their best to explain them away.
Lorry with nil 6pm.
Rained heavily wärhend die Nacht [during the night is a good guess!]
Germans routed on Russian Front?
Planes over 8.15pm.
09 Apr 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2016-03-30 18:12Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 9 Apr 1945“Housemaster” (Blair, Kathleen Davis, Stanley Mason, Jack Armstrong ((not sure if this was the son or the father)), Colledge, Maureen Booker, Mrs Begdon, Yvonne Charter, John Valentine, John Stanton, Eric Kennard, Peter Potts, Raymond Lawrence, Noel Croucher, Colin Luscombe)
09 Apr 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2016-06-20 14:36Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 9 Apr 1945Worked in am. Eye bad.
To C.A. Meeting.
Lecture on Banks, I didn't go.
