Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Barbara Anslow:

I had always assumed that 'Bang' was a nickname for Mr Stuart, but on looking up lists, find that 'Bang' is shown as one of his forenames!  He is James S. Bang Stuart, a Prison Officer, aged 40 in 1945.    He married fellow-internee Edith Johnson, I think at the end of internment, don't seem to have recorded it.

He is shown as an 'Officer' on the list of Prison Officers in 1940, joining the prison service on 8 March 1934.

Date of birth from John Black's list, which gives his occupation in 1941 as "Civil Servant HKG".

He is mentioned several times in Barbara Anslow's diaries as teaching German lessons in Stanley Camp.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Miss Pepperell's occupation in 1941 as "Book-keeper".

Barbara kept a diary covering the period 1941-1945, ie the fighting in Hong Kong, and her internment in Stanley Camp. You can read her diary online here, and also buy a copy of the printed diaries (published as Tin Hats and Rice) in the Gwulo shop.