Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Argyle Street Camp

Gunner in the 8th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery. Surrendered at Stanley on 25 December 1941 and subsequently interned at North Point Camp, Argyle Street Camp and Sham Shui Po Camp.

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Enlisted on 8 December 1941. Attached as 2nd Lieutenant to the Hong Kong Dockyard Defence Corps (HKDDC). Captured at Pokfulam on 25 December 1941 and later interned at Argyle Street Camp and Sham Shui Po Camp.

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Joseph Hilton Shaw was a Stores Superintendent at China Light & Power Co., Ltd.

He was married to Dorothy Margaret Roe. 

During the Battle of Hong Kong, he joined the HKVDC on 11 December 1941. Private Shaw was later interned at Argyle Street and Sham Shui Po Camps. His wife was interned at Stanley Camp.

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Andrew Simpson was a civil servant attached to the H. M. Dockyard. Not sure of his actual duties but on his POW Card he held the rank of Sergeant. 

He married Francis Vera Stroud, secretary to H. M. Trade Commissioner on 29 April 1939 at the Registry.

After the fall of Hong Kong he was interned at Sham Shui Po and Argyle Street Camps. He was later shipped to Oeyama POW Camp, Osaka. His wife was interned at Stanley Camp.

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Simon Edward Hedges Eyre White was Lieutenant-Colonel and Commanding Officer of 2nd Bn The Royal Scots during the Battle of Hong Kong.

He married Violet Studdert in 1931. She appears to have styled her name as Violet Simon-White

After the fall of Hong Kong, Lt. Col. White was interned at Argyle Street Camp. His wife was interned at Stanley Camp.

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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.

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.

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

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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