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Rae 2yrs today.

In A1 Kitchen all day.

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The only meeting of the Council of Hong Kong University during internment takes place. It's held in the British Community Council Office and its first business is to welcome Franklin Gimson to the Council. It moved on to note deaths of University staff and students and to express sympathy for their relatives.

A huge number of parcels were distributed last Monday and I was very fortunate getting five in all. Bone got two, Meffin two and McIntyre two and most of the parcels were from our yard people.

Y.A.N. Gow

1st Floor, 28 Tai Foo St.

1tin Del Monte coffee 1lb

1tin Falcon butter 12oz

1tin condensed milk

1tin sugar 2lbs

1tin jam 5lbs

1lb bread

Classical Concert

Cementing brackets in A1.

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News good if true.

I haven't written for a week.  My back has been horrid - I don't know what causes it, lack of fats I think.  But it's better again.  I have had 2 lovely parcels this week, one from a Margaret Guttinger (Dora knows her - she of course just lends her name as a "cover" - I think it's the gentleman whose wife travelled to Singapore with you - No, it's not) - 1 tin of bully, 2 lbs sugar, a cake of Carbolic Soap, facetowel, toothbrush and toothpaste.

Death of Brian Anthony Willey, aged two years.

Source:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 186

Short / Martin

Special Anniversary Service

Death of Brian A Willey, infant son of Mr & Mrs F.J. Willey

Cookhouse.

Cold.

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Walk with S pm.

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MOST SECRET

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To: Military Attache,

H.B.M. Embassy,    

Chungking.    

Reference:

INT/HQ/211 dated 24th, Jan.,43.

From: Colonel L.T. Ride,

C.O., B.A.A.G.,    

Kweilin.

Subject:- Casualties. B.A.A.G.

I regret to have to inform you that the inevitable has happened to some of our men.

No.77 CHAN KWOK KWONG.

No.48 TSANG TAK HING.

Informal concert (Seyer, Humphries, Frost, Campbell, “Mad Hatter's Tea Party” - Cyril Brown)

((Following text not dated:))

In first week of month met Scamp ((Selwyn Clarke)). Plausible as usual but no offer of help. Later in month to hospital to ask him about relief. Frank talk. Says he has no money. Handed over all relief to Red Cross. Many wrecks waiting to see him. Several bearded Europeans living there. Agrees Eurasians not well treated by British or Red Cross. That why tried help them from start. Suggests inquiry at Macao.

We had brought in one nice big bath towel which we cut in half, keeping one half for future use and making two small towels from the other half. But when we heard Bunny had been given the rank of 1st Lieutenant at the outbreak of hostilities and was in the Argyle St Camp, we decided that he would be much better off for such things than we were, as they have a canteen and regular pay!

Much warmer today.

Polished chest of drawers.

Walk with S pm.

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It was a strange thing too that not a single card arrived in this camp from Argyle St Camp. These cards have been a somewhat mixed blessing, those who received them were delighted, but those who did not were upset, not to say anxious. Many wives did not receive cards because their husbands had been taken away to Formosa. The absence of any card from Sham Shui Po was the first intuition that any of them had had of their husband’s removal.

Fine but a little cooler.

Walk with S pm.

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From today's Daily Mirror:

Pilgrims at grave of nurse who died for patients

NURSES interned in Hong Kong have visited the grave in a monastery garden of their colleague, Miss Irene Brenda Morgan, of Leeds, who was killed in action.

Her name heads the War Office casualty list published today.

Stericker / Norman row over JAIL Concert

off then on

Cookhouse.

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"The Jail Show" is put on at St Stephens. Mabel Redwood keeps a copy of the poster: