25 Feb 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2014-03-15 17:55
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Date(s) of events described:
Wed, 25 Feb 1942
The camp's cooks are changed.
An extra half slice of bread per person is delivered.
St Albert's Convent Hospital, which had continued to operate, is abandoned. Bowen Road Military Hospital is still treating POWs and on February 27 four Medical officers, twenty RAMC orderlies and thirty nurses will be sent to St Teresa's to set up an 80 bed POW hospital in Kowloon.
Sources:
Cooks, bread: Constance Murray Diary, p. 2 (Weston House, Oxford)
Nurses: Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, entries for February 25 and 27, 1942
