Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Details from John Black's list & Philip Cracknell.

Wife of Vernon Walker, mother of Veronica.

Met Vernon during World War I

On the 18th of February, 1922 married Vernon Walker at St. John's Cathedral.

On 30th of October 1927 daughter Veronica born at French Hospital.

Husband of Doris Walker, father of Veronica.

Boarded the Awa Maru from Birkenhead on 12 of March, 1921.

Arrived in Hong Kong in August, 1921, and joined the Tramways as an assistant workshop superintendant. Lived from 1922-1924 first at "Homeville" then at "East Point Flats"

On the 18th of February, 1922 married Doris Muir at St. John's Cathedral.

Ernest Thomas Warden was a revenue officer (second class). He died in Stanley Camp.

http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=15364&p=localities.britisles.england.lnd.general

John Oram Sheppard was a Warrant Officer in the Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

He died of dysentery in February 1942 - the second death in Stanley.

Source:

http://www.geni.com/people/John-ORAM-Sheppard/6000000014690930625

Guillaumine E. P. Le Cocq d'Armandville married Jacobus van der Laan on December 10, 1927 in Palembang, Sumatra.

During the first 18 months of the Japanese occupation she lived with him at the Sun Wah Hotel. The couple were sent to Stanley in July 1943.

She died in the Hague aged 97.

Source:

http://gw.geneanet.org/evanderlaan?lang=en;pz=esther;nz=van+der+laan;ocz=0;p=guillaumine+e.p.;n=le+cocq+d+armandville

Jacobus van der Laan was the manager of a bank the Netherlands Trading Society when war broke out.

After the surrender he was one of the bankers kept out of internment to liquidate the assets of their instutions. He and his wife lived at the Sun Wah Hotel until being sent to Stanley in July 1943 on the completion of their work.

Sources:

David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 313

Hermann Balean was a doctor and surgeon who practised first in China and then Hong Kong.