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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


8 Apr 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 11:54 PM PDT

Book / Document: 
Date(s) of events described: 
Thu, 8 Apr 1943

Windy & cold am but improved pm.

Zindel visited camp.

Walk with Steve.

((G.)).

Cressell died 7pm.

New moon.

Concert at St Stephens.

Jap ammo. on pier.

08 Apr 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 22 Jan 2015 03:50 AM PST

Date(s) of events described: 
Thu, 8 Apr 1943

Death of Paul Ewart F. Cressall.

Before the war he was Puisne Judge and was in charge of the enquiry into allegations of corruption in the building of air-raid shelters. He took the unpublished report with him into Stanley, but it disappeared after his death.

Cressall gravestone.jpg
Cressall gravestone.jpg, by brianwindsoredgar

Source:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271.

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