Thursday, August 28, 2014

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

29 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:23 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-29

Meant to sleep on the roof last night with Mabel and Nan.  Glorious moon and wonderfully cool, but hardly slept at all - very hard surface; at 2.30am rain began in real earnest so I came down then, tho the others stayed.

Mary not so well now.

29 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 12:30 AM PDT

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Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-29

The New York correspondent of the Canberra Times publishes a report of an interview with journalist Vaughn Meisling who was repatriated on the Gripsholm.

The first thing he mentions is that Meisling saw Dorothy Jenner ('Andrea') in Stanley. She worked as a secretary to the Commissioner of Police during the fighting and a bomb scored  a direct hit on her building but she was unharmed apart from shock. In Stanley she'd lost weight but looked well.

Meisling had also met Richard Cloake, formerly of Brisbane, who worked for the South China Morning Post. He'd been ill with typhoid before the war but had recovered and could do physical work - he was pushing a wheelbarrow around camp as a 'food distributor'.

Other Australians he saw in Stanley were 'reasonably well' and all were cheerful.

Food was the biggest problem in camp, but the situation had improved since April when 'it was very bad'.

Source:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2584921

29 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:47 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-29

News OK in general.

Concert P.M.

29 Aug 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT

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Ella Buuck's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-29

We arrived in Fort Wayne on Saturday afternoon ((August 29)) where the family and friends met us. Again the photographers were there but this time they were much more polite and did not fight among themselves and push each other as they had in New York.

To say the least, Fort Wayne ((Indiana)) looked mighty good to us and so did the chicken dinner that we had been talking about for months. Lest you get me wrong, we were also very happy to see all the family there, yet: for, not having heard for 8 months, we were not sure what to expect.

((This is the end of Ella's wartime diary.))

29 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:28 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-29

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