Edith Freda DAVIES [c.1898-????]

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Edith Freda
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Davies
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Female
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Deceased
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Known as Freda Davies. Mentioned in Joan Whiteley's Wartime Diary

Entered Stanley Camp in August 1942. After the Japanese surrender, she left Stanley Camp on 26 August 1945 to provide nursing services at the Central British School Hospital. See David's comment below from "Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong". 

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  1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/7714-davies-edith-freda/

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Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service / Royal Army Nursing Corps (QAIMNS/QARANC) [????-????]

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Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps - Corps News 1946
1946

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"Later transferred to Central British School Hospital." may be read as her spending time interned at the CBS. 

Instead the move came soon after the Japanese surrender, when Ms Davies was one of the group of nurses who left Stanley Camp on 26 Aug 1945 to provide nursing services at the Central British School Hospital.

Dr Bowie's Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong also mentions the nurses' move:

  • "On 22 August we arranged with Colonel Field for all our Q.A. sisters to return, and Saito and Sekiguchi came to ask what they could do."
  • 26 August: "Six of our Q.A. sisters arrived and another six came late at night accompanied by very necessary male escorts from Stanley. We were delighted to see them and put them all up and fed them but it was early morning before I got to bed."

Thanks David. I had been trying to find that piece of information. Will amend above and those of others.