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05 Dec 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Death from cancer of Lilian May MacGowan, linen store manager at Queen Mary Hospital.

 

The fifth draft of Prisoners of War sent to work in Japan leaves Hong kong today when 496 men set sail at 4 p.m. on the Soong Cheong. On December 21 they are transferred to a troopship, the Toyama Maru, because the Soong Cheong's engines give out.

 

The new ship, after a storm-tossed voyage, will dock in a freezing Japan on January 6th.

Sources:

Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, Kindle Edition, Locations 2108-2133

MacGowan: Philip Cracknell at http://battleforhongkong.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/stanley-military-cemete…

05 Dec 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Dow / Myhill

Death - Mrs. Lillian May McGowan (47)

5 Dec 1943, Barbara Anslow's diary

Mrs. L. M. McGowan died today. She knew she had cancer, but refused to go into hospital, or let her 2 children Betty and Jackie know she was terminally ill, until they had left camp for repatriation to America.

5 Dec 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Fine, cold, no news or rumours.

Walk with Steve pm.