Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Michael Martin writes:

Leo Borisoff was a White Russian Policeman in HK and in Stanley Camp and he was friends with my grandfather and his cousin Vitaly 'Vic' Veriga.

DoB from John Black's copy of the CWGC list of internees at Stanley, which gives Miss Darby's occupation in 1941 as "Stenographer".

The first mention I see for him is in the 1933 Jurors List, where he is working as a Steward at the H.K. & Shanghai Hotels, Ld. By the 1941 List, he's still with the same company but promoted to Maitre d'Hotel.

John Black's copy of the CWGC list of internees at Stanley has a typo in the surname: "V I Olafinsky". It gives his occupation in 1941 as "Ast Hotel Manager", and DoB as 1905.

He is buried in plot 18---/03/04- of the Protestant cemetery at Happy Valley, together with another family member who also died in 1942. His gravestone reads:

In loving memory of

Paul Oscar Peuster

born 7th July 1881

died 3rd June 1942

Yin King [Cheng] Peuster

born 12th August 190? (last digit not clear, maybe "6")

died 18th February 1970

Paul William Peuster

born 14th October 1925

died 9th August 1942

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Rowell's occupation in 1941 as "Housewife".

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Miss Bascombe's occupation in 1941 as Teacher.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Haynes's occupation in 1941 as "Police".

He was the elder brother of Leonard Haynes.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Haynes's occupation in 1941 as "Police".

He was murdered while on duty in 1949. See the newspaper report of his death.