Diary pages from this date

Notes:

18/12/44 - Rent   10-00
                - Race Tic.   5-00
                - St. Teresa Poor   5-00
19/12/44 - Fix pot   7-00
                - ((Shorthand is not decipherable))
20/12/44 - Took delivery from Lim 60¢ ((Catties)) Rice (¥24-50 p. ¢)
21/12/44 - Lamp Chimney   1.00
                - Shoe Horn for Girlie   2-00
23/12/44 - Wong's Sister gave ¥50-00 to buy Sugar for Amy
                - To HK with 1 tin Fish, 1 tin P'apple, 1 tin Cookies + 1 carton home made sweets for Colledge. Ferry to HK + back  1.-
                - Girlie's salary for this month from Dr Lum ¥300. Gave me ¥200.-
24/12/44 - Bot for Amy 1 1/2 ¢ ((Catties)) Slab sugar  45-00
                - 2 Haircuts   5-00
25/12/44 - Between Saturday 23rd + today (25th) Xmas. Lim gave me ¥570. - Had Lim + 4 kids to Tea, also Doc.  Y.C. + Bea

Supporting information:

• List of translations and abbreviations
• List of foods

T. Knox died suddenly, leaving his little wife (who used to live in room adjacent to ours for the first year), and sons in other camps.

Mr A.E. Carey died; he'd hung on for a long time - got over the typhus, but developed gangrene of arm.

Death of Thomas Knox, husband of Jessie, aged 60 at Tweed Bay Hospital. He was the father of William Thomas Knox, and perhaps of Douglas Haig Knox, HKVDC members who were in Shamshuipo before being drafted to Innoshima in Japan.

Death of Albert Edward Carey an Inspector in the Hong Kong Police, aged 43. He had joined the Hong Kong force in 1919. His wife Jean and two daughters had been evacuated in 1940.

Sources:

Knox:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 188

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367491

http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/hiroshima/hiro_5_innoshima/hiro_5_british_roster.html

Carey:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 188

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.oceania.newzealand.general/2079/mb.ashx

Note:

A photo of Mr Carey's grave can be seen at:

http://www.thewargravesproject.org.uk/information.php?id=1817683

Death – Thomas Knox (60) of C.M.C.

Death – Insp. A. E. Carey, HKP (43)

Colder, overcast.

Clay & brick collecting.

Canteen buyer No.136.

Chopped wood for Steve & chopped my finger too.

Lorry with wood 5.15pm.

More advances made by US troops thro’ Siegfried Line, 20mls from Cologne. Frazer app’t’d C in C. P.F. ((Bruce Fraser took command of the British Pacific Fleet in December 1944: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Fraser,_1st_Baron_Fraser_of_North_Ca…))

Water on.