Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Sham Shui Po Camp

George White was formerly the head of the Engineering Department at Plymouth Technical College, U. K. He joined the Education Department on 11 November 1932 as a technical supervisor and formulated plans for a system of technical education in Hong Kong.

He later became the Government Trade School's first principal. The School held its first courses in February 1937 and was formally opened by Governor Northcote on 13 April 1938.

In April 1941, George White was appointed Controller of Land Transport.

In the 1941 Jurors List, Thomas Fletcher Stainton, DCM* was a timekeeper at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. He was also a Sergeant (3093) in the No. 2 Company (Scottish) of the HKVDC.

He married Daisy Elizabeth Minnie Wilson, nursing sister of Queen Mary Hospital at St. John's Cathedral on 23 July 1940. In 1940, he resided at No. 9 Braemar Terrace.

After the fall of Hong Kong, he was in Bowen Road Hospital and later interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. His wife was interned at Stanley Camp.

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Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dockyard and resided on site.

He was a Private with the HKVDC during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. Corporal Fred Cullen died on 2 March 1945 and is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery.

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1. Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

Born 21 February 1889 in Broxbourne Hertfordshire, son of Sir George Turner MRCS, MRCP and Eleanor Charlotte Silcock [1]

On 4 Nov 1925 he married Daisy Mainwaring Lockett Fair. [2]

He was a partner in Deacons, a well-known law firm in Hong Kong. [2]

He doesn't appear on the lists of internees at Stanley, although his wife was interned there, so he may be the 'Turner, Michael H. [131] 2nd Lieutenant' of the 7th Heavy AA Battery listed on the Hong Kong War Diary website [3]. That would have made him a POW in Hong Kong during WW2.

James Percival Whitham appears in the 1941 Jurors List as Acting Branch Manager of Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada. He married Beatrice Lenora Brouwer and they later had a baby boy, Jonathan G. Whitham (1941-1944) born on 30 November 1941 at Matilda Hospital.

During the Battle of Hong Kong, Whitham was a member of the HKVDC and had been transferred to the Middlesex Company on 17 December 1941 as a lieutenant. He was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941.

This photo shows my father Lieutenant Arthur Brown standing on the left facing in front of his squad. I think the picture was taken at the Royal Navy Dockyard. 

Osmond Skinner was born in Lee in the Lewisham district of London and his birth was registered Quarter 4 Lewisham 1900. In 1911 he was living with his parents Alfred and Edith Skinner in Lewisham.

He married age 31 to Hazel Agnes Goodburn (1900 - 1987)  in Manila on 22 August 1931

Consular Birth Indices

Elizabeth Anne Skinner born in Manila Philippines abt 1932/3 aka Anne. She was the child of Osmond Skinner and Hazel Agnes

Passenger List May 1945 Hong Kong to London

John Hubert Bottomley (Jack) was born in Baildon, West Yorkshire in 1899, the oldest of four children of Fred Bottomley and Elizabeth Tyson.   As a young man Jack served in World War I and was gassed as well as receiving serious shrapnel wounds in Flanders. He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.

After the Great War he studied engineering at Bradford Technical College (now Bradford University).  He passed the Oxbridge exams but the family could not afford to send him to Oxford or Cambridge.