Everything tagged: Diary / Memoir

We have brief notes about George Pio-Ulski and his wife Melitza, and a few of their documents from the Japanese occupation years.

These are courtesy of their daughter Nona. Please visit Nona's website for much more information about her family's history:

http://pio-ulski.com/

Thanks to Michael Parker for sending a copy of these memoirs, discovered while "rummaging through some old Cathay Lodge files at Zetland Hall" .

My war years. 1941 – 1945.

These memoirs were written in the year 1984.

The War Diary of Roland Henry John Brooks:

Introduction

Eric MacNider wrote this diary to record his time in Stanley. Each day is given one line of a notebook, so the entries tend to be brief.

He was very thorough at recording details of:

• Births, deaths, and marriages
• Entertainments put on by the internees, often with a cast list
• Sunday church services, listing the priest(s) taking the services that day, and the title of their sermon.

Abbreviations used in this diary

Impressions of an upbringing in Hong Kong 1910-1933.

My grandmother was a meticulous diary keeper, though I'm not sure when all this was compiled. Apart from taking out the first ten or so pages that are devoted to  early childhood in Wei Hai We, where her and her sister were born, I have not editted it. The pictures are all from her photo albums. Some of them are postcards from the time.

Thanks to Donald's son David for sharing these extracts from his father's journal. David writes:

On February 11, 1944, Lt. Donald W. Kerr of the 32nd Fighter Squadron of the 3rd Fighter Group of the United States Army 14th Air Force, Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW), was shot down over Hong Kong.  These are extracts of his journal describing his rescue by the people of Hong Kong, the East River Column, and the British Army Aid Group (BAAG)

Introduction

Jane Hersimenko has been documenting the life of her grandfather, Hugh Blackwell Layard Dowbiggin. Thanks to Jane for sharing her family history with us.