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Cover Page of Booklet 'HONG KONG Before, During and After the Pacific War'

Submitted by Suziepie on Wed, 2012-05-02 14:48
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2012

The cover page of the Booklet "HONG KONG Before, During and After the Pacific War" by M.F. Key, OBE, (former internee of Stanley Prison Camp).  The Booklet was published in November 1945, Australia, and June 1946 Hong Kong. This photo accompanies the Full Text of the Booklet featured on Gwulo.

G) The Internment

Submitted by Suziepie on Sun, 2012-04-01 12:02
Book / Document: 
HONG KONG Before, During and After the Pacific War

 

The Internment

Tags: 
European prisoners
Stanley internment camp
starvation rations
Japanese invoice for hotel accommodation

Maurice Frederick KEY [1886-1969]

Submitted by Suziepie on Wed, 2012-02-22 14:22
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Key
Given: 
Maurice Frederick
Birth
Date: 
c.1886-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Chester, Cambridgeshire
Death
Date: 
c.1969-04-01 (Day is approximate)

M.F. Key,   O.B.E. - Secretary to the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce - was an internee in Stanley Prison Camp during WWII. For some time he shared a room with the Vice-Chancellor of the University - (who was giving lectures at the camp on English literature for two years, twice a week).

Mr Key published a small, 12 page, soft-cover booklet/pamphlet initially in Kaplee, Kapunda, Australia, in November 1945.  Because of heavy demand, he re-produced the booklet in Hong Kong in June 1946.

The booklet is titled:

Birthplace (country): 
England
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Pre-WWII
Japanese attack
defences
surrender
Stanley internment camp
camp organization
conditions
routine
rations
black market
Red Cross
repatriation
deliverance
post-war

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