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It Won’t Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War

Submitted by Pete on Fri, 2022-05-20 22:35
Author: 
Graham Scudamore Percival HEYWOOD [1903-1985]

Japan marched into Hong Kong at the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was captured by the invading Japanese near the border while carrying out duties for the Royal Observatory. He was held at various places in the New Territories before being transported to the military Prisoner-of-War camp in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon. The Japanese refused to allow Heywood and his colleague Leonard Starbuck to join the civilians at the Stanley internment camp.

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Graham Heywood
Royal Observatory
Prisoner-of-War
Pacific War
Sham Shui Po internment camp
1941-1945

IMG_20210302_SignalTwr_Stone.jpg

Submitted by H Lo on Wed, 2021-03-03 01:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Noticed a small stone next to the Tower, couldn't read the inscription ... Anyone knows if it's an IL stone?

 

Private weather stations in Hong Kong 1842 onwards

Submitted by Richard Muirhead on Tue, 2016-11-08 23:29
I wonder if anyone has any records,stories,diaries or any other source of information refering to private meteorological stations in Hong Kong other than the Royal/Hong Kong Observatory and if so,were there records ever published? And if so,where?
 
Thank you.

Royal Observatory,Hong Kong,weather instruments on front lawn.

Submitted by Richard Muirhead on Sat, 2015-03-14 20:11
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980
Places shown in this photo: 
Hong Kong Observatory [????- ]

Photo taken on one of my frequent visits to the library at the back of the then Royal Observatory, Hong Kong,Tsim Tsa Tsui,Kowloon.

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