Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942. 

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.  Interned at Stanley.  Repatriated in August 1942. 

Steward aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Volunteer truck driver during battle for Hong Kong.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.  Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942.  Died during emergency surgery in November 1942 in California.  The surgery and death were attributed to health problems stemming from his time as an internee.

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942. 

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942.  From Omaha, NB.

Shipping executive for American Trading Company, the American firm that owned the freighter Admiral Y.S. Williams, which was captured in drydock along with its all-American crew in December 1941 in Hong Kong.  A U.S.

Two other New Zealand nurses were among the three thousand prisoners at Stanley Camp, Hong Kong.
 

Margaret North , a missionary nurse who had worked at Hangchow , was given permission to join the Military Nursing Service . At first she was destined for Singapore , but eventually arrived at Hong Kong in November 1941 . On Christmas Day Hong Kong capitulated,  and for her splendid work during the preceding bombardment , Miss North became the only missionary nurse to receive the R.R.C. *

Maude Caroline Franks (née Braga)

Born, Hong Kong, 8 December 1898; died, Sydney, 18 October 1962, aged 63.

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