Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

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Potts or Hutton Potts? Joanna writes:

... while most of the family use just "Potts" our correct surname is HUTTON POTTS without a hyphen ...

Brian Edgar has a post describing Doris Cuthbertson's work during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Initially interned in Stanley Camp, she was guaranteed out in September 1942. She spent the rest of the occupation living outside camp, and was responsible for channeling money and other supplies to Jardines' employeed in Stanley Camp, and in the Prisoner of War camps.

Read more at: https://jonmarkgreville2.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/doris-cuthbertson/

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The China Mail, 1932-07-04, page 7:

More than $3,000 worth of valuables were stolen from the residence of Mr A. H. Potts, High House, Mount Davis, during the week-end.

Potts or Hutton Potts? Joanna writes:

... while most of the family use just "Potts" our correct surname is HUTTON POTTS without a hyphen ...

DoD from his obituary:

"[...] Fr. Bernard’s death is a great loss also for our China Province, where he arrived, newly-professed, 73 years ago in 1937 and where he spent 51 of his 73 years of Salesian life, being one of its Rectors (1952-1958) and Provincials (1958-1963). [...]"

He spent the war years (1941-45) in Hong Kong.

Mentioned on page 3 of The Melbourne Argus, Tuesday 19 March 1940:

SAILORS SAVE FOUR LIVES

Motor-car in Harbour

HONG KONG, Monday

British sailors dived into Hong Kong harbour yesterday and rescued two women and two men from a car which had plunged into the water.

Two other men, Mr. J. H. Roberts, manager of a British factory, and M. M. Genechaeff, a Russian, were trapped in the front seat and drowned.

Barbara Anslow writes:

I see her name on Stanley list is Edith Frances, though I'd thought it was 'Sybil', although I didn't know her very well.  If I have the right person, her husband was a vet, I think he must have functioned at the Jockey Clubn, maybe she helped him as she took our puppies to dispose of them. She was in Stanley.

Philip Cracknell wrote these notes on the old Stanley Camp list:

I came across a rather rare book or maybe booklet would be more apt titled "Memories of a Japanese Internment Camp" written by Margaret Elizabeth Jay and printed by Tyndale Press, Lowestoft.

Notes from Bob Tatz:

John died in Horning in Norfolk on 18 September 2016. Information from his wife Doreen.