Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone! Thanks, TKWong, for your message of 24th. I can't recall any Chinese New Year celebrations in Stanley, but I'm sure...
Don, I so enjoyed reading your reminiscences about Stanley; they stirred my memory in many ways. Yes, rumours were the spice of life there; whether true or...
Thanks Barbara for your kind words! I have no recollection of dining tables in the American "garage". Since there have been a number of mentions, then I...
First of all, I must add to the discussions, how much I have enjoyed reading the writings of Barbara Anslow. It is totally amazing to me the detail she can...
As some of you will know ,my father was a prison officer at Stanley before the war and was interned in Stanley along with my Mum ,He retuned to Stanley where...
As I was adding Dads sketch of the Dining room ,I thought I would add his sketches announceing my birth etc, Mum added all the notes. Do any of you remember...
Hi, Rosemary: As your dad was a Stanley Prison officer, he may have know the father of a very brief acquaintance of mine, H.G. Stevens, of Forest Hill,...
Rosemary, thank you so much for posting your sketches. I especially liked the American food line and seeing the assorted pails and tin can "dishes". I have...
Welcome, John! Note: John and I used to see more than just a little of each other, post war, in Canton, Laan Tau, and for an adventure in Cheung Chow. Now as...
Geoff Emerson: You asked me some time ago for copies of certain of my diary pages for St. Stephen's College archives. I am now sending an attachment containing...
Like Don I would like to welcome John to the group. John and I are old friends and keep in touch. We were two of the 79 students who enrolled at Central...
I was interested to see the reproduction recently of a wartime newspaper showing the slain tiger which had been terrorising the Camp Several reasons were...
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Jan 16, 2009 8:52 am
In case it is of any interest to the group, I visit Central British School (now KGV) every Saturday morning while my kids play football there. The main...
Hi, Ian: Greg Leck's most excellent and comprehensive book on internees of the Japanese in China, "Captives of Empire", on pages 480-481, has a section with...
Alfred Whittaker served with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and was seconded to The Chinese Regiment during the Boxer Rebellion,during this period he saved the...
The names of some of the pre-war CBS pupils mentioned in Ian and Tony's emails raised more memories for me. I had a year at CBS in 1928, having graduated...
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Jan 16, 2009 10:56 pm
Ian, Sorry, I missed the questions about the SCMP. The last issue was Dec 26 1941. After that, it was supplanted by the Japanese-run Hong Kong News. I am not...
I have just been doing some work on my family tree and was looking at a copy of my parents wedding certificate ,your not going to believe who was one of their...
... father of a very brief acquaintance of mine, H.G. Stevens, of Forest Hill, Australia - near Melbourne. Mr. Stevens' father I believe was a prison guard,...
Very Interesting to read about Alfred Whittaker. Another interesting person in Stanley was Francis Arthur Sutton, described as an Engineer, but known as...
Hello All,  Just to fill you in, my father, Rees North, an Inspector in the Colonial Police Force, was interned in Stanley for the duration of the war. ...
Christine - I was interested to read your email, good wishes for your visit to HK. My family and I went there last October (13th - 21st) and found it...
27.1.09 Christine, Further to my today's email, forgot to mention we travelled economy class, hence the low cost, and it wasn't as basic as I'd feared!...
Hello Christine, I too want to visit Hong Kong in the not too distant future and see where my aunt lived, the Peak School where she was the headmistress for...
Dear Christine and Jill, That's great you want to visit HK. As Barbara says, October can still be very hot (particularly the first half of the month), so Nov...
Thank you Geoff, I will file your message for future reference. If you are ever in south Texas when you visit the States, do let us know. Ken and I would be...
Dear Geoff and Barbara,  I have just read all the replies. Thank you so much. There's Plenty for me to investigate and keep me occupied for a while. Of...
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Jan 30, 2009 9:31 am
Barbara, Talking of 'interesting characters' do you recall a Leon Blumenthal? He was, I believe, in his late twenties in Stanley and was in the PWD. Regards ...
... Blumenthal? ... PWD. ... described ... one ... he worked as a Prison Officer at Stanley with my Dad.He had 2 sons Michael ane Dennis.I can remember Mum...
