70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
14 Dec 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2012-03-13 17:32Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 14 Dec 1942We can send small parcels to Shamshuipo for Christmas, and a ten word greeting.
I weigh 128 lbs ((rice fat)).
Trouble over money – Mum has applied for some, so has Mabel, but Mabel put that she wanted hers for shoes ((not food as expected)).
14 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2012-12-01 14:43Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 14 Dec 194214 Dec 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2012-12-19 16:54Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 14 Dec 1942Death of Anthony Clarke aged 12 days.
James O' Toole in Shamshuipo sends Christmas cards to Alan Barwell, Joan Whitely and Peggy Harrison.
Sources:
Death: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271
and
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_ftnref10
Cards:
Source:
O'Toole Shamshuipo Diary at
http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/James_OToole/html/dairy_1942.htm
14 Dec 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-11-08 13:24Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 14 Dec 1942Death of Anthony Clark. (buried in I.R.C. parcel box).