Everything tagged: New Zealand

Two other New Zealand nurses were among the three thousand prisoners at Stanley Camp, Hong Kong.
 

Margaret North , a missionary nurse who had worked at Hangchow , was given permission to join the Military Nursing Service . At first she was destined for Singapore , but eventually arrived at Hong Kong in November 1941 . On Christmas Day Hong Kong capitulated,  and for her splendid work during the preceding bombardment , Miss North became the only missionary nurse to receive the R.R.C. *

• In 1965, Commander REME John Probert arranged a visit for former Hong Kong prisoners of war on the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Sham Shui Po POW Camp.

A H Potts described Captain Fox as the adjutant of the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery.

Name and date of death from Hong Kong War Diary.

Cyril Gaby represents a long-standing tranche of the Hong Kong community - that is of seamen who would acquire a Chinese mistress in the city and set her up in an apartment. It was a convenient arrangement for men who came and went. In his autobiography, Gaby has described how he acquired his mistress through the time honoured "viewing" procedure at a tea shop in Ladder Street and recorded the price negotiated with the madam, which in his case in the early 1930s was a down payment of $500 and the purchase of a $2000 apartment in Wanchai.

Mr McReynolds either lived next door to 19 Broadwood Terrace in 1926 or next door to 19 Broadwood Road. He also owned a monkey. He is not on Carl Smith nor on the Jurors Lists. It would be useful to verify his actual address in order to confirm the whereabouts of my grandmother, Hannah Warren in 1926, apparently bitten by McReynolds's monkey in one newspaper report. A second newspaper report gave the victim as her daughter-in-law, Cicely Warren and the location Broadwood Road, not Broadwood Terrace. 

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

He was the elder brother of Leonard Haynes.

Ralph Burton Goodwin OBE RN​ZN​VR

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

He was Secretary of the New Zealand Internees Association in Stanley Camp.

After training as a nurse in New Zealand, Kathleen Thompson went to Britain in 1936 and joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. 

In Hong Kong she served as matron of St. Albert's Hospital during the hostilities.

She went to Britain after the war and became Assistant Director of the Army Nursing Sevice (rank: Lieutenant-Colonel). After retirement in the 1960s she returned to New Zealand and died at the age of 94.

Source:

Arthur E. Gomes Newsletter, undated but probably March 2002