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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1961

Mr. Robert Tai, a pilot with the Far East Flying Training School, about to take Clive Hamilton on a flight in a Chipmunk.

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1961

A newspaper cutting of Clive Hamilton receiving his BOAC Junior Jet Club Certificate for 50,000 miles from Captain A. N. Moore.  Comet 4B in the background..  

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1961

Pat Boone with possibly a Lillywhite on the left and Clive Hamilton on the right.  Pat Boone boarded the aircraft in Bangkok, much to the excitement of the air hostesses on board.  The aircraft was a BOAC Comet from London, one of the "Lollipop Specials" bringing childen from school in the UK to Hong Kong for their summer holidays.

06 Dec 1941, INTERNED - DECEMBER 1941

Date(s) of events described: 
Saturday, December 6, 1941
Book / Document: 

We were dancing in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong on the evening of Saturday the 6th December, 1941.  During the evening an announcement was made on the loudspeaker, recalling all service personnel to report to their headquarters immediately.  It was an ominous sign that war with Japan was close at hand.

INTERNED - DECEMBER 1941

Deacription of the internment at Stanley Camp during the Second World War.

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