Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Barbara Anslow:

Magdalene, always known as Maggie, was a VAD nurse whose husband was in the Kowloon camp; at one time she was billeted in our room with us.

Barbara Anslow: In 1941, Mr Puckle was Director of ARP (Air Raid Prevention).

Barbara Redwood: In 1941 he was Deputy Director of ARP (Air Raid Precautions).

Barbara Anslow: "[In 1941,] Tony Cole was a member of Senior & Accounting Staff, HK Govt., working as a clerk in the ARP Dept."

Barbara Anslow: "[In 1941] Mr C.T. Bailey was a father figure in ARP Dept."

Read more about Gertrude Tamara Jex in this thread on the Stanley Camp discussion list.

Notes from Barbara Anslow:

She was ARP personnel with us in Dina House during the battle, then in Tai Koon Hotel (where she and I shared a bed), and ultimately in Stanley.

Notes from Jill Fell:

Barbara Anslow mentions my father’s cousin, Marjorie Cook née Warnes in her Stanley diary. She brought her to life with some wonderful anecdotes told to me this summer. However, when she and Marjorie moved to Stanley, they were in different sections of the camp and lost track of each other. I wonder if anyone else remembers Marjorie.

I have only just got information about my great uncle Jack Mcgowan and his wife (I have no information on her, she may have been Chinese or a prior English wife) were in the siege of the Repulse Bay hotel and after lived in the sewer drain for the duration of the Japanese occupation. I was about 8 or 9 when he returned to the UK and I can only remember meeting this living skeleton off the train in London, but no wife.

A Mr Mcpherson who was the superintendant of the then new Auckland harbour bridge knew him and survived with him in the drain.