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Robin Basil Levkovich was a policeman of Russian origin who had become a naturalized Briton in the years preceding the war.

During the hostilities he worked for Food Control and was captured by the Japanese while on a mission to Kowloon. He was held in the Kowloon Hotel for a number of months after the surrender on the grounds that he'd worked for the British Government, but was released in March 1942 due to the intervention of his family dentist, who was in fact a Japanese officer.

Ian Bodie writes:

My father was born in 1916 in Dundee and joined the Hong Kong Police in 1938.  He was interned in Stanley between 1942 and 1945.

Like many who went through the ordeal at the hands of the Japanese, he refused to speak about his experiences in the Camp to his family. I am now trying to find out if anyone in the group has any recollection of him in Stanley.

Sue Harding writes:

My husband's Gt. Uncle was in the Hong Kong Police and interned at Stanley camp; his name was Donald Brown. 

Just this weekend we have been handed some letters he wrote to his sister in India while he was a prisoner.

After the war he remained in the Police, eventually emigrating to New Zealand.

We'd be interested to hear anything about life in the camp, especially from anyone here with a connection to Donny or other Police internees.

Hong Kong police officer 1885 - 1887