23 Jun 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

23 Jun 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Date(s) of events described: 
Fri, 23 Jun 1944

Father Bernard Meyer buries M. J. Flaherty in a Roman Catholic service.

George Wright-Nooth regards the euology as excessive and the revelation of words spoken between the dying man and his confessor as inappropriate.

Source:

George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 215-216

Note: for the prelude to today's events see yesterday's entry.