Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

ARSENY JOSEPH SAVITSKY 

Portrait Artist in Stanley Prison Camp

AJ Savitsky was an artist interned in the Stanley Prison Camp during World War II, when the Japanese occupied Hong Kong, He was a Russian who had migrated to Hong Kong in the early 1930s and became a member of the Hong Kong Police Reserve in 1936. He was interned with other civilians, including police officers. 

DoB from John Black's list.

She was the wife of Dr N C Macleod, and mother of daughter Janet, and sons Kenny and Callum.

Maiden name from: https://hebrideanconnections.com/record/people/68010/ 

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Cheape's initials as "C R", and his occupation in 1941 as "Sugar Merchant".

John Charter's diary entry for 1 Mar 1942 mentions Vera:

She speaks Japanese fluently, having been born in, I think, Yokohama, and lived in Japan for the first eleven years of her life and returned there later.