Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Shipping executive for American Trading Company, the American firm that owned the freighter Admiral Y.S. Williams, which was captured in drydock along with its all-American crew in December 1941 in Hong Kong.  A U.S.

Two other New Zealand nurses were among the three thousand prisoners at Stanley Camp, Hong Kong.
 

Margaret North , a missionary nurse who had worked at Hangchow , was given permission to join the Military Nursing Service . At first she was destined for Singapore , but eventually arrived at Hong Kong in November 1941 . On Christmas Day Hong Kong capitulated,  and for her splendid work during the preceding bombardment , Miss North became the only missionary nurse to receive the R.R.C. *

Maude Caroline Franks (née Braga)

Born, Hong Kong, 8 December 1898; died, Sydney, 18 October 1962, aged 63.

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Her entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

• Sister Harrington, who comes from Slade Green, Kent, nursed the sick internees in Stanley camp, Hong Kong
• In addition to her nursing duties Sister Harrington served in the kitchens and helped at the camp wash tubs
• During her internment she suffered a broken arm and leg
• Hong Kong Blue Book (1939) - Medical Department, Hospital Division, Nursing Sister

Entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

Entry on the 1942 list of civilian internees:

Notes from uptodat:

Entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

Sister of fellow internee Florence D. CARTWRIGHT (aka Flo).

Mentioned in the 1942 list of Civilian Internees:

The Deacons Archive at HKU has an entry showing  that her husband was in the HKVDC, and was killed in action: