Trevor Victor Norman FORTESCUE (aka Tim) [1916-2008] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Trevor Victor Norman FORTESCUE (aka Tim) [1916-2008]

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Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-02-13 21:57
Names
Given: 
Trevor Victor Norman
Family: 
Fortescue
Alias / nickname: 
Tim
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1916-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
2008-09-29
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Hong Kong Cadet
Connections: 
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Submitted by defortescue on Sat, 2014-05-03 17:52.

Can anyone help me solve the following 2 pieces of my jigsaw about my parents', Tim and Margery Fortescue's war-time exeriences in Hong Kong:

i) My father, Tim Fortescue, arrived in Hong Kong to take up his duties as a Hong Kong cadet, during the first week in September 1939 on a (probably French) boat from Marseilles. Is there anywhere in Hong kong which holds passengers lists for non UK/US ships during this period

ii) I am trying to discover when my parents went into Stanley. I know they arrived later than the bulk of the internees as my mother, Margery Fortescue, continued working as a nurse (ANS) in the War Memorial Hospital where my father was with her until they were interned

Any information would be most welcome!

Submitted by David on Sat, 2014-05-03 18:12.

I can't help with an exact date, but I notice the earliest mention we have of him is from Barbara's diary for 28 Jun 1942, so we know he must have arrived before then.

Regards, David

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-08-27 14:54.

Diana Fortescue writes:

I am very grateful to you for sending the reference to my father performing in Robert Morley's 'Goodness how Sad' on 19 August 1943. He had been a great mover and shaker in the Cambridge Footlights as an undergraduate and I have a few references to is participation in entertainments in Stanley but not nearly as many as I would have expected given what a welcome distraction such activities must have been. How amazing that they had a copy of the play in Stanley!

My father was one of the Governor's staff during the fighting and was therefore a civilian internee. I would love to know whether anyone with a full list of the Stanley internees can identify who else had been working as part of the Governor's entourage during the fighting.