Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Entry in the list of Civilian Internees:

Her entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

Philip Cracknell has written about the family on his blog:

Archibald and Frances Cook - their story of a family separated by war

Notes from Ron Bridge:

Dutch. Widow of Pte H van Leeuwen HKVDC kia 18.12.41

Dr Harry Lechmere Clift was a pioneering medical missionary.  Born in Madras, India in 1876, he was educated in India and then in England at Eastbourne High School and in 1893 he went to Edinburgh to study for his Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery degrees, which he completed in 1900. 

Entry in the 1942 list of Civilian Internees:

Her entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

On 1 September 1950, Chief Inspector F. J. Clarke was shot and seriously wounded in a gun battle with an armed kidnapping suspect in Ha Kwai Chung Village. In the incident, the Commanding Officer for Kowloon and New Territories Edmund Colin Luscombe and Detective Sub-Inspector Alexander Leslie were tragically killed. Chief Inspector Clarke retired in 1951 and left for Australia.

Philip Cracknell found this family in the Stanley Camp Register of Civilian Internees, held at the Imperial War Museum in London:

His entry in the 1942 list of Civilian internees:

His entry in the 1942 list of Civilian internees:

John Charter describes him as "head of the PWD Waterworks Department".