Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

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.

Notes from the Chardhaven Hotel thread:

Annelise:

Advert in The Straits Times, 24 October 1939, Page 2

Husband: Thomas Herbert EDGAR

Further information: http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/in-memoriam-eveline-marques-doliveiralena-edgar/

Wedding photo, 1942 in Hong Kong:

Wife: Evelina EDGAR

More information:

Family lore tells us that Edward and two younger brothers were put into Dr. Bernardo’s Home* in London after the death of his mother in 1918.

Family lore also tells us that Edward joined the Hong Kong Police Force.

Although passenger records are incomplete, evidence has been found that Edward sailed back from Hong Kong to London in 1938 aboard the RMS Corfu, and he was already on the police force, so apparently there had been earlier voyages.

Edward returned to Hong Kong prior to the war.