11 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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Rodney Michael Metcalfe is born to Mr. R. O. and Mrs. K. M. Metcalfe, missionaries who have probably been caught in Hong Kong by the outbreak of war, as the family will later be transferred to Shanghai.
A British Women's Group is founded in Stanley. Its aims are to organise women to carry out tasks such as making and mending and to supply women workers for the kitchens and other forms of communal labour. It also arranged to co-operate with women in the American and Dutch communities.
This is clearly not the kind of 'Women's Group' we are used to in the feminist period - nevertheless, it will eventually find itself clashing with the almost entirely male hierarchy of Stanley Camp!
Sources:
Metcalfes: China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3 and Stanley Roll
Women: HKMS72 1-2 and 1-4
