10 Mar 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

10 Mar 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Date(s) of events described: 
Wed, 10 Mar 1943

Mutal Fielder 'celebrates' the birthday of her fiancee, Kenelm Digby, who's interned in Kuching:

I had my 21st birthday in Stanley in 1942 but it passed like any of the other often boring days there; it was certainly no time for partying. But we always marked Kenelm's birthday on 10 March every year and made some sort of cake, usually rice mixed  with a bit of sugar in it, as we wondered how we was spending the day, interned in Sarawak. I had heard he was alive but only one card from him ever reached me in Stanley. I sent two or three cards while I was there but none of them ever reached him.

Source:

Derek Round, Barbed Wire Between Us, 2002, 163

 

Note:

Kenelm Digby had a cousin in Stanley: Professor Kenelm Hutchinson Digby, surgeon and head of surgery at Hong Kong University (Round, 163)