1 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

1 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Date(s) of events described: 
Tue, 1 Sep 1942

Well-known Australian journalist Dorothy Jenner ('Andrea') has recently been elected representative of her camp area (such people were generally called 'blockheads'). It's not an easy job and today she confides to her diary, 'committee a hellish one - I am automatically everybody's enemy'.

Source:

Christina Twomey, Australia's Forgotten Prisoners, 2007, 61