Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Walter Thompson was a Superintedent in the Hong Kong police when the Japanese attacked in December 1941.

He was wounded by shell fragments during the hostilities and interned in Stanley after the surrender. On the night of March 18, 1942 he began an escape with Gwen Priestwood. On their way to Chungking, they were helped by Chinese guerrillas, and Thompson decided to operate with them behind Japanese lines. He ended the war as a Lieutenant-Colonel.

Interned in Stanley Camp with her husband Norman and her son Richard.

Norman Gunning came to Hong Kong in 1936 to become a policeman.

He was a sergeant when the Japanese attacked in December 1941.

He was interned in Stanley with his wife Nan and baby son Richard.

He took early retirement on health grounds in 1948 and returned to the UK. He eventually became an estate manager in Lincolnshire.

In 2005 he published Passage to Hong Kong, an account of his time in the police and during the war.

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Jean Mather, the wife of a soldier, was interned in Stanley Camp.

In 1994 she published Twisting the Tail of the Dragon, an account of her experiences in Hong Kong.

Gomes Newsletter, April 1, 1997

John Joseph Toomey was a Jesuit father, ordained on June 10, 1922. In 1941 he was appointed Procurator and Local Superior of the Maryknoll house at Stanley.

During the December 1941 hostilities he several times risked his life to care for wounded soldiers. He was interned at Stanley, released with the other Maryknollers on September 12, 1942, and eventually made his way to India.

William Hudson came to Hong Kong in 1925. He worked as a prison officer at Stanley Goal and during the December 1941 hostilities he fought in the Stanley Platoon.

After the surrender he was interned in Stanley Camp.

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http://blunderingblindlybackwards.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=bill+hudson

Anna May Waters arrived in Hong Kong on November 16, 1941, as one of two military nurses accompanying the Canadian soldiers of 'C' Force.

During the hostilities and the first part of the occupation she served at Bowen Road Miitary Hospital. She was sent to Stanley Camp alongside other nursing staff on August 10, 1942.

She was part of the Canadian repatriation of September 1943, returning to her home city of Winnipeg. Between September 1944 and August 1946 she served, at first in war theatres, on the TSS Letitia.

Lieutenant Kay Christie was one of two women who arrived in Hong Kong alongside almost two thousand Canadian soldiers on November 16, 1941.

During the December hostilities and the first part of the occupation she served at Bowen Road Military Hospital. In August 1942 she was moved to Stanley Camp along with other nursing staff

She was sent home as part of the general Canadian repatriation of September 1943 as the Japanese accepted her civilian status. She returned to Toronto where she worked as a specialist medical secretary.

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Date of birth from John Black's list.

There are some notes about him on the HKGCC page for PricewaterhouseCoopers:

Being virtually without competition in its earlier years, Lowe Bingham & Matthews experienced significant growth, being fortunate to have amongst its clients many of Hong Kong's leading businesses of the time -- including China Light & Power, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock, Jardines and Hong Kong & China Gas.