So, I am searching for Ray Mabb and Margery Matthews .. ringing bells? Thanks for the info below .. Philippa Deane From: stanley_camp@yahoogroups.com...
Dear All, Tony Banham was right - I was on holiday (a month in India, with a small group of family and friends, where I found the grave in Jubalpur of my...
Came across these old cuttings of camp drawings by Mr. M. L. Bevan, who was Deputy Director of Air Raid Precautions. Hope the tiny text is legible. I think...
Dear Barbara, Thanks very much for sending these drawings by Mr Bevan. I'd not seen them before. Next time I'm in HKU Library, I must see if they have the...
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Tony Banham
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Mar 9, 2010 9:22 am
... Can anyone help with identifying 'Andree'? Tony...
Philippa - Have looked at list of ANS people in Tony Banham's War Diary; most of them were much older than your Mother, but I'm trying (via the few surviving...
Interesting request from Tony Regrettably I cannot supply any information about Madam Andree. But as a playing member of the Rugby section of HK Football Club...
Tony - re an item in Feb. HK War Diary newsletter about Mr. Oatway, it seems strange he has no known grave in Stanley. It could be that for some unknown...
Philippa - Afraid no luck in searching for any surviving internees who remember your Mother in camp. But I did find an ANS (Grace Darby) who was billetted in...
I've just posted the full version of C. J. Norman's poem A Farewell to Stanley on my blog. I'd be grateful if anyone could eludicate 'messages sent through the...
Hi Brian, Good to hear from you but I didn't get the poem or any photos, which I'd love to see. There is a copy of the poem in my thesis and book. Norman's ...
Hi, Geoff! Lovely to be in touch again. I thought I'd posted a link, in my message, but evidently not! http://cid-b659613245ed03d4.spaces.live.com/default.aspx...
WENDY - I noticed today in my camp diary that your Mother won a cushion cover in a raffle in camp, and just wondered if you remembered ever having seen it. The...
Brian - I have never mastered how to get on to 'blogs' so can't see what you said there. CSO pre-war and during war was 'Colonial Secretary's Office'. Post...
I'm forwarding an email with enclosures received from Chris Chubb who was a small boy in Stanley Camp. It makes interesting reading to me, and I hope to some...
DON Very many thanks for your kind instructions - they worked! So I was able to enjoy Brian's contributions there. Re mention of the possibility of the Pope...
Yes, I agree with your interpretation of the remarks re HK pows & internees. I was very interested to read the quotation from Hansard. It felt really strange...
I've a definite memory of a fragment 0f a WWII Winston Churchill speech in WW2 in which he used the phrase, 'and terrified by tigers!' in reference to Stanley....
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Tony Banham
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Apr 21, 2010 9:42 am
Don, The quote you may be referring to (I can't think of any other) was in 1947, though I don't think it was a reference to Stanley: “Dictators ride to and...
Hi everyone! I've joined this group as I've recently started transcribing a diary in my family's possession - I've mentioned it briefly to Geoffrey Emerson who...
Tony: Thanks for straightening me out on Churchill's very minor role in the Boer War. I can not vet a reference to Churchill's tiger remark, but know that...
Hi Alison, If you have diary pages and other information to upload, the group's website for this type of info is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stanley_camp ...
Thanks Michael, I'll have a go next week - Don Ady has given me some tips for uploading too. A lot of the material is very run-of-the-mill weather comments etc...
Geoff, very interested to read that Mr.Norman's daughter lives in London,and is an active member of the Friends of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch)...
Welcome to our group, Alison. You obviously have some valuable material to add to our group. I was especially interested in your entry from May 30 1942, about...
Hello Alison and welcome, if you have any notations about my late aunt Bee Bicheno please let me know. Jill McNichol-Harrell ... From: ckdarnell@......
Hi Alison, I was wondering if theres any reference to my great uncle and aunty : Charles Thomas Evans and Audrey Victoria Evans nee Greenfield. regards William...
Philippa, Margery Matthews, subsequently Margery Marshall (she married Gerry Marshall of Jardines after the war) was my mother's best friend and my godmother....
