4 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2012-03-13 18:56
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Tue, 4 Aug 1942
Professor Robert Cecil Robertson of the Hong Kong University Medical Department is found dead at the foot of a balcony.
He had not been sent to Stanley in January 1942 but kept in university premises and forced to continue his bacteriological research under Japanese supervision. Although his work benefitted the Chinese population as well as the Japanese, he had become depressed by his situation, and suicide is a possibility.
Robertson had won a Military Cross in WW1. One of his Shanghai paintings was hung in the Royal Academy in 1937.
Sources:
Circumstances of death: Charles G. Roland, Long Night's Journey Into Day, 2001, 194
Cross, painting: obituary in British Medical Journal, October 24, 1942
