72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 19 Sep 1943, Barbara Anslow's diary
- 19 Sep 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
- 19 Sep 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
- 19 Sep 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
| 19 Sep 1943, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 19 Mar 2012 03:18 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Sun, 19 Sep 1943 Brooke Himsworth born. (Nice to see him in the 2011 HK gathering photos) |
| 19 Sep 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 26 Aug 2013 06:18 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Sun, 19 Sep 1943 |
| 19 Sep 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:04 PM PST Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Sun, 19 Sep 1943 Dow / Martin To Mr. & Mrs. E. Himsworth, a son (Brook) Farewell to Fr. Murphy and 4 sisters of I.C. |
| 19 Sep 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 17 Jan 2015 02:23 AM PST Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Sun, 19 Sep 1943 The Sunday Express carries (page 7) news of the death of Sir Vandeleur Grayburn, 'who worked all his life in the Far East, who refused to come to wealth and comfort when the Japanese entered the war, and who finally gave his life for his country in a Japanese internment camp'. Much of the article is based on an interview with Arthur Morse, a former Hong Kong banker who'd been sent back to London and acted as the HSBC head during the war. Grayburn's refusal to leave Hong Kong came earlier - as far as I know he wasn't considering or offered passage on one of the CNAC flights out of Hong Kong after the Japanese attack - and he died in Stanley Prison not the Internment Camp, but the tribute is more deserved than probably even Arthur Morse knew, because, as well as leading a major illegal operation to raise funds for relief and medical work in the camps, Grayburn was an agent of the resistance organisation the British Army Aid Group (code name; Night). According to Morse, Grayburn refused to retire, sending him to London while 'remaining to face the Japanese' with the Bank's 162 British staff and 'hundreds' of other nationalities. Morse notes Grayburn was a man of 'great vitality' and the article gives the official cause of death as 'avitaminosis'. |
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