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Everything tagged "WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp"

Millicent Evelyn JOFFE (née MURRAY, aka Lynn) [1911-1984]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Joffe
Given: 
Millicent Evelyn
Maiden: 
Murray
Alias / nickname: 
Lynn
Birth
Date: 
1911-10-22
Birthplace (town, state): 
Bengal
Death
Date: 
1984-04-11

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Joffe's occupation in 1941 as "Housewife".

Note from her daughter, Libby: "my mother Lynn Joffe died in London on 11/4/1984 aged 72".

Birthplace (country): 

Mabel Winifred REDWOOD (née WELLS) [1895-c.1975]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Redwood
Given: 
Mabel Winifred
Maiden: 
Wells
Birth
Date: 
c.1895-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
c.1975-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Mother of Barbara, Olive, and Mabel, wife of William Henry.

W. SUTTON [????-????]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Sutton
Given: 
W.

Barbara Anslow:

Soon after returning to Hong Kong in 1946, I was astonished one day to see Miss W. Sutton, a middle-aged internee with a withered arm, walking along with a little dog on a lead - I was told this was the same dog she had with her in Stanley until the Japanese took all dogs out of the camp.

Thomas Charles BARCLAY [c.1895-1950]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Barclay
Given: 
Thomas Charles
Birth
Date: 
c.1895-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
c.1950-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Cause of death: 
Heart failure

Notes from his grand-daughter, Alison:

He worked at Taikoo as an engineer in charge of one of the sections or teams, and lived in Braemar Terrace.

Fedor Longinovich ZADORIN [????-????]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Zadorin
Given: 
Fedor Longinovich

Vitaly Leonid VERIGA (aka Vic) [c.1911-????]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Veriga
Given: 
Vitaly Leonid
Alias / nickname: 
Vic
Birth
Date: 
c.1911-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

DoB from John Black's List, which gives Mr Veriga's occupation in 1941 as "Police".

Ana Elena REDDISH (née ANDRES, aka Anna / Dolly) [1911-2008]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Reddish
Given: 
Ana Elena
Maiden: 
Andres
Alias / nickname: 
Anna / Dolly
Birth
Date: 
1911-08-06
Death
Date: 
2008-08-18
Birthplace (country): 

Cecil REDDISH [1910-1964]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Reddish
Given: 
Cecil
Birth
Date: 
1910-01-13
Birthplace (town, state): 
Grantham, Lincolnshire
Death
Date: 
c.1964-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Cause of death: 
Tuberculosis

Brian wrote:

A powerful piece on the Reddish family (Cecil, Anna, daughter Veronica, born in camp, and her two younger sisters):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths/japanpowdiaries.shtml

I think it brings out very well the effects of internment on post-war living.

Birthplace (country): 

William Wylie Clark SHEWAN [1905-1984]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Shewan
Given: 
William Wylie Clark
Birth
Date: 
1905-07-18
Death
Date: 
1984-06-21

Martin Ingram DEVILLE [????-????]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
DeVille
Given: 
Martin Ingram

Notes from Judith DeVille:

I have just received some information from the IWM about him and thought it may be of some interest to you.

His Camp No was 2018 and he was in Block 9 Room 49 and he worked for Colonial Survey Service [...]

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