Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

DoB from John Black's list.

Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong during the war years.

Barbara Anslow:

[Mrs Barton was] Chinese / Portuguese and a brilliant classical pianist.

Barbara Anslow:

Mrs. Betty Drown was a talented pianist who played for us every Sunday evening in the Prison Officers' Club  aka American Club aka Central Recreation Club.

Details from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Longworth's occupation in 1941 as Housewife.

"R. E. Jones" appears on the List of Prison Officers for 1940, which shows he started work there on 2nd March, 1935.

He fought as a Private in the Stanley Platoon of the HKVDC.

He wrote a diary recording Hong Kong life in 1941-45, covering the fighting and his internment in Stanley Camp.

Timeline:

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Grant's occupation in 1941 as "Mental nurse".

Barbara Anslow:

[In 1942 she was] a nurse.

Barbara Anslow:

[In 1942 she was] a young nursing sister with T.B.