12 Mar 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

12 Mar 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Date(s) of events described: 
Fri, 12 Mar 1943

“White Cliffs”

I.Q. 21st. auction (Marmite Y 17.50; 5 lb. jam tin Y16)

Death of Christina Cameron, wife of J.J. Cameron

Comments

Eric McNider's reference to 'White Cliffs' surely records the recitation by Mrs Winnie Cox of the famous wartime poem at a camp concert.

At a Stanley Reunion in England in 1997 I met up with Winnie and introduced her to an ex-Stanley HK policeman, as soon as he heard her name, he remembered her and proclaimed the first line of the poem!