Everything tagged: VAD

Sue Rodger writes:

My mother, Betty Evelyn Longbottom and my grandmother, Dorothy Longbottom were both in Stanley. Mum used to tell us some stories from capture and the camp; some were horrific. She was a nurse in a hospital there. Mum is still alive, in Sydney, but has dementia.

I am trying to find out more about my aunt Nellie Hillier who was in Stanley 1942-5, but can't find her name in the list of civilians. Her husband Wilfred worked for Jardine's and joined the HK Volunteers. He was killed on 22 Dec 1941.  

Barbara Anslow:

Soon after returning to Hong Kong in 1946, I was astonished one day to see Miss W. Sutton, a middle-aged internee with a withered arm, walking along with a little dog on a lead - I was told this was the same dog she had with her in Stanley until the Japanese took all dogs out of the camp.