Leslie PARKIN (aka Les Bowie / Leslie Shatokin) [c.1940- ] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Leslie PARKIN (aka Les Bowie / Leslie Shatokin) [c.1940- ]

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Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-05-10 10:04
Names
Given: 
Leslie
Family: 
Parkin
Alias / nickname: 
Les Bowie / Leslie Shatokin
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Unknown
Birth
Date: 
c.1940-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Barbara Anslow:

Leslie Parkin was a little boy about 4 years old, in camp with his Mum Mrs Barbara Parkin.

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Connections: 
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Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-01-06 11:18.

Brian writes:

We discussed a camp photo that included Les Parkin (now Bowie) earlier this year. He was in Stanley with his mother and he's now created an excellent website which tells some of that story in prose and verse: http://childsplayintheshadowofthesun.weebly.com/

There's a wonderful evocation of swimming in Tweed Bay, but to me the most powerful part is the description of a 'dream of closure' that his mother, who had a particularly tragic time, experienced shortly before she died of brain cancer: http://childsplayintheshadowofthesun.weebly.com/xx-aftermath.html

More about Mr Bowie from his granddaughter: http://prezi.com/bqtrk1jznw53/biogrphy/

And comments on a lecturer ratings website: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=226909