Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

F W Wright was interned at Stanley, but escaped and went on to join the BAAG in China.

Thomas Pritchard was my paternal grandfather. He is buried in the Stanley Cemetary. My father and I saw his grave when we went out to HK in 1982.

In brief, he came from Pwllheli, north Wales and had a long career at sea. He had served for the Hong Kong and Macao Shipping Line for a while through the 1930s at least (I posted a pic of him with Robert Ho Tung in one of your galleries yesterday) and commanded the steamers Kinshan and Taishan.

I found a couple of mentions of him in the government gazette: