Have been most interested to read Mr Jones' diary up to the end of 1942 (thanks to Laura who sent me those pages). This brought back many memories: the...
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May 4, 2010 10:47 am
Barbara, What was Mr Jones' full name? I may be able to find his pre-war address. Regards Tony PS I heard from the granddaughter of Wally Scragg today (a...
Tony, I would be interested to know if Wally Scragg has any knowledge or memories of my father Rees North who was also a wartime policeman. Dad was a good ten...
Thanks to Alison for the very laborious task of transcribing from the diary of RB Jones, with more to come if she can keep at it! I looked up Rae Jones on the...
Tony- According to Greg Leck's book, the full name is Raymond Eric, Prison Officer. The diary mentions several Block Numbers (in Stanley), probably he lived in...
My apologizes about misreading "E" as "B". It is RE Jones,not RB Jones. Maybe I was thinking of the stupid joke about a mythical man with no names, only...
I just saw a website with a couple of interesting Stanley tiger tidbits. http://www.hku.hk/ecology/porcupine/por26/26-vert-tiger.htm Note, this "porcupine"...
Don - My diary for 31st May 1942 records photo in newspaper showing tiger killed in Stanley. The Stanley resident who skinned it etc. was Mr. Bradbury, who was...
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May 11, 2010 6:26 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the stanley_camp group. File : /RE Jones...
Thanks again to Alison McEwan for more of RE Jones' diary. Another 60 pages or so, 4/ Nov/ 1942 to 21/ Feb/ 1944. Alison is either a tremendously fast typist...
In case members haven't heard this sad news, I am forwarding an email I have just received. What a tremendous loss to our group. May John rest in peace. ...
Stanley Camp - Hong Kong - WW2My husband and I spent 14 years in Hong Kong teaching at Hong Kong International School - 1973-80 and 1996-2003. We spent many...
We only exchanged a few emails, but therein I found John to be a thoughtful person. RIP Don Ady________________________________________________ ... I have just...
Dear Lois Voeltz, That is good that you and your husband enjoy the Stanley Camp forum. On page 161 of my book are two photos of the tiger from The Hongkong...
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May 13, 2010 11:10 am
I was surprised to see, looking back, that I had been corresponding with John since 2005. Over the years he was kind enough to tell me much about his life. I...
Have been most interested to read Mr Jones' diary up to early 1944, but felt much unease at being privy to the entries re 'G' which are so highly personal. I...
Very sad to hear this news and think of his family. I came into contact with John in 2007 when he contributed to Tony's Hong Kong War Diary. We embarked on a...
The following extracts from beginning of my war diary might be of interest, with bracketed annotations I added when typing diary years later. (My mother -46,...
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May 16, 2010 9:33 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the stanley_camp group. File : /Laura B....
In Daniel Levy's book Two-Gun Cohen, published in 1997, he writes about the tiger. Cohen was an internee who was repatriated on the Teia Maru in September 1943...
A tale that crossed my memory again is one I overheard talked about in(probably) early 1941. Talked of in the past tense. As if perhaps it happened in the...
Laura, thanks for the upload, which I have now read. Your mother wrotein some considerable detail! To view a download using Windows XP and no Microsoft...
So we were in the same "hotel" in Kowloon at the same time. Incredible. WE were at the New Asia Hotel, I believe. We are listed as Sigler, no Z in it. I was...
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Tony Banham
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May 19, 2010 9:44 am
Laura and Don, From the original January 1942 'census': Ady US, Mrs. Room 6A, 1 Minden Av. NAH Ady,...
Thanks, Tony. Those were the HK street addresses of the flea bitten hotels we were transient in waiting for the boat to Stanley. Before evacuating Kowloon we...
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Tony Banham
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May 20, 2010 12:24 pm
Don, The Phillips House was on Carnarvon Road, though I don't know the number. Among other things, it seems to have been the HQ of your parent's mission, ...
Just heard that Dr Mark Erooga (ex Stanley Camp) passed away on 23rd May 2010, aged 95 years. He particularly looked after TB patients, who were accommodated...
Sad news, Barbara, thanks for letting us know. He certainly lived a long and no doubt full life. Did you have another name in Camp as he's not on Greg Leck's...
