Sunday, August 31, 2014

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

1 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 26 Feb 2012 07:35 PM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-09-01

Rumour is (a) the Russians are retreating round Stalingrad, and (b) the Russians have counter-attacked on various fronts.  Also, that Canada has invited us in the Far East to go to Canada, all our expenses paid.

Mr Bendall gave Mabel a lovely cake of good soap for her birthday - Agafuroffs sent him in a parcel.  ((Pre-war we often played tennis with Jimmy Bendall and the Agafuroff brothers at the Civil Service Club, Happy Valley. The Agafuroff brothers were not interned, I think they were Indian and probably both worked in the HK Government.   I never heard anything of them after the war.))

1 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:48 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-09-01

No news of importance. High wind, rain.

1 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 07:18 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-09-01

Well-known Australian journalist Dorothy Jenner ('Andrea') has recently been elected representative of her camp area (such people were generally called 'blockheads'). It's not an easy job and today she confides to her diary, 'committee a hellish one - I am automatically everybody's enemy'.

Source:

Christina Twomey, Australia's Forgotten Prisoners, 2007, 61

1 Sep 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-09-01

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