1 Feb 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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L. A. Collyer, head attendant at the Mental Hospital before the war, admires the work of the nurses but is in cynical mood:
All of the Civilian, Army & Navy Sisters & The Volunteer Nursing Services have done marvellous work, both during and after the war, & some of them paid heavily. The work the Sisters have done in the Camp Hospital certainly deserves recognition, and thus makes me doubt very much that they will get it, more likely it will be ignored. But I don't think there's a man in the Camp who doesn't feel the same.
Collyer goes on to note that some of the Eurasians are also deserving of sympathy: they weren't allowed to take part in the 1940 evacuation, 'but the Govt. were pleased to make use of their husbands, etc. during the war.
Source:
Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, entry for today
