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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


20 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:55 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-04-20

Back at hospital office again.  Good: feel tiredish but more energetic.

Jack Fancey died early this morning.  ((He had spent his last days, cheerfully, on a bed near the verandah on first floor ward of the hospital, overlooking the sea.))

20 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 12:28 AM PST

Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-04-20

Death of J. Fancey, aged 24.

Source:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271

Note: Part of today's entry in the Maryknoll Diary reads, Another death, from tuberculosis, in the hospital.

20 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-04-20

More rain.

No news.

Put in request for Club funds $3,500.

Quiet walk around camp boundary with Steve. ((We think this was E. J. Stevens - see notes below))

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