Diary pages from this date

A couple who were probably the first internees to marry have their second child: Robert McGregor Mitchell.

Mrs. Rachel Grace Rose dies at the age of 44.

Mrs. Rose was a Chinese woman married to a Henley Hemdon Rose, formerly of the Public Works Department and then a POW in Shamshuipo.

She left a daughter Dawn (12) and son Gerald (8) to be cared for by Mrs. H. Aitken.

Gerald was to become an award-winning illustrator of children's books. His claim to have seen his first live tiger in camp presumably means that he was one of those who caught sight of the Stanley tiger of May-June 1942.

Sources:

Mitchell: China Mail, September 15, 1945, 3

Name and Age: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 272

Son and daughter: http://gwulo.com/node/11330

Husband: http://gwulo.com/node/11238

Tiger: http://gwulo.com/node/11238

Birth of Robert McGregor Mitchell to Amy Maltida May Eliza Mitchell and A. McGregor Mitchell, a prison officer.

Robert's sister Rosemary was also born in Stanley.

Death – Mrs. Rachel G. Rose (33) wife of H.H. Rose

Birth – To Mr. & Mrs. A. McG. Mitchell, a son.

Med. exam,  wt. 131; Blood press. 105

Issue oil, sugar, tea

Robert Mitchell born.  Parents married at start of camp, daughter Rosemary born Oct. 1942.

Mrs R. G. Rose (Chinese) died, leaving British husband in Kowloon camp, and Dawn 12 and Gerald 8 in Stanley.  Both children cared for by Mrs H Aitken, mother of Eddie, until the end of internment.

Heavy rain nearly all day. Bed dripped on last night.

Ground rice for bread after much useless messing about with the Spong grinder.

German lesson.

With Steve pm.

Parcels arrived?