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11 Magazine Gap Road Ruin

Submitted by Herostratus on Sat, 2019-01-05 04:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1946

Ruin of 5 Magazine Gap Road

Submitted by Herostratus on Sat, 2019-01-05 04:06

1945 Looted house

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2018-04-02 22:18

Text on Flickr: Green Island Cement Co manager House looted by Jap. (Source: the photographer)

Ma Tau Kok Gas Works and Gas Holder in the back.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945
Tags: 
World War 2
gas works
gas holder
Looting

Kai-Tak-&-Kam-Tin-aerodromes-1942

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2018-01-19 19:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1942

This document infers Japanese aircraft were stationed in the New Territories as well as Kai Tak

Illustrated London News-bombing of Hong Kong

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2018-01-19 19:05
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1942

A page spread from an original Illustrated London News dated February 1942.

Some of these images of the bombing around Kai Tak we have seen before in various qualities and from a number of sources.

An account of Hong Kong leading up to the Japanese invasion in 1941

Submitted by Hugh Dulley on Sun, 2017-02-19 18:30

"A Voyage to War: An Englishmans's Account of Hong Kong 1936-41" by Hugh Dulley

A brief description of the book:-

Hugh Dulley’s father (Peter Dulley) and mother (Therese Sander) met in Hong Kong on New Year’s Eve 1935. Four years later at the outbreak of war, Peter, a weekend sailor, was called up in the Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He eventually graduated to command an ocean-going tug of 500 tons from Hong Kong to Aden. En route he called at islands still enjoying pre-war peacetime and navigated across the Indian Ocean using a sextant.

06 Dec 1941, INTERNED - DECEMBER 1941

Submitted by Clive Hamilton on Tue, 2017-01-03 06:32
Date(s) of events described: 
Saturday, December 6, 1941
Book / Document: 
INTERNED - DECEMBER 1941

We were dancing in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong on the evening of Saturday the 6th December, 1941.  During the evening an announcement was made on the loudspeaker, recalling all service personnel to report to their headquarters immediately.  It was an ominous sign that war with Japan was close at hand.

Tags: 
World War 2
Stanley
Hamilton

INTERNED - DECEMBER 1941

Submitted by Clive Hamilton on Tue, 2017-01-03 06:28
Author: 
Kathleen Florence HAMILTON (née HERON, aka Kathie) [1908-2002]

Deacription of the internment at Stanley Camp during the Second World War.

Tags: 
World War 2
Stanley
Hamilton

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