Around this time last year, some one in the group wrote about a video of Hong Kong 1941-45. Does any one know if, and where, this is available please? ...
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Tony Banham
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May 7, 2009 9:38 am
Barbara, I think it was: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHTrmz4hTI Regards Tony PS Is anyone in touch with the Sewell family?...
Tony I seem to recall that some one in the Group last year mentioned Ruth ( married name something like 'Baker'.) Am emailing Dick Gunning who organised the...
Tony: I enjoyed seeing the "old views" of Hong Kong. No doubt this was a movie camera of the oldschool sort, the film reel transcribed to video. Newer images...
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Tony Banham
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May 8, 2009 10:44 pm
Geoff & Barbara, Thanks. I was asking as I have been in contact with a chap called Bob Tatz who teamed up with the Sewells (he was perhaps 9 or 10) before they...
Just read a short memoir by an ex HK Policeman Norman Gunning, called 'Passage to Hong Kong.' He was a friend of my late husband's pre-war - they were both...
For Williamrshore: thanks for email. Your relatives aren't listed in Norman Gunning's book, though many others are. Do you know which Block in Stanley they...
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Tony Banham
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May 18, 2009 11:10 am
Barbara, Unfortunately I could not help in this case, as the Evans were transferred to Shanghai early (on 24.12.42). Regards Tony...
Hello, I've enjoyed reading your posts, and thought you might be interested to see this set of several hundred photos taken in Hong Kong in 1940 and 1941. You...
Thanks, David, for posting the URL for the old Hong Kong photos, some 310 or so of them! All those old faces and places from around 1941. I recognized almost...
Can some one please tell me how to unload these photos? I have forgotten how to do it! Barbara...
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Tony Banham
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May 21, 2009 9:09 am
Barbara, I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'unload', but you can see them just by clicking them. Then, if you want to save to your computer, right click on...
This extract from my camp diary might interest some members: 'Summary of 1942. I lost about 15 lbs. in weight, and to date have put on about 25! Mum has lost...
Barbara: Had you clicked on the highlighted words "Start at the first photo", you should have got to the first one, 3 toddlers on a sampan, one hanging a bit...
Barbara: I got crossed up on the URL somehow, that is the same result as if you clicked the "Start of the first photo". Use THIS one to get to the top of the...
Sorry for making this more difficult than it need be. I've made a small change that hopefully makes it easier to use, and here are fuller instructions: A. To...
Don - many thanks for guiding me to the photos. re Photo 277 and the comments about the scaffolding outside a tenement to bring down coffin with deceased:...
Barbara, I'm just back from vacation, and pleased to read you can see the photos ok now. I hadn't heard the 'dodge the devil' story before, thanks for that. ...
TONY: Must tell you what an amazing read your new book is... There is so much info. packed into it, lots of things about the HK war & camp experience that I...
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Jun 1, 2009 11:50 pm
Barbara, Many thanks for your kind words. I am pretty sure that Luba (a lady) is an American now, as she had quite an illustrious career with the CIA post-war...
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Tony Banham
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Jun 3, 2009 10:31 am
Barara, I asked Luba. She says that she was born in Harbin of White Russian parents, and therefore did not get a Chinese birth certificate. Her family moved - ...
Welcome Wendy! Wendy entered Stanley as an infant, and went to England after the war. Later she and her mother went to California, USA. One of we few members...
Welcome, Wendy! Wendy entered Stanley as an infant, was there through the war, went to England with her mother, then later to California in the USA. Regards,...
Welcome to Wendy! Wendy entered Stanley as an infant. She went to England with her mother after the war, and later they went to California, USA. Regsards, Don...
Don: Also welcome to Wendy, a fellow internee: would she be 'Wendy Wilson'? I vaguely remember a little girl in camp of that name with shoulderlength...
