Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1945
HONG KONG
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Arrival of British Troops
Skirling pipes in the streets of Hong Kong yesterday told the people that British Army and Air units had arrived to relieve the Royal Navy, a detachment of which, under Rear-Admiral Harcourt, was the first force ashore 12 days ago.<Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1944
Hong-Kong Mail
It may interest Cheltonians who have relatives or friends in Hong-Kong to hear that mail is arriving at least in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp.
Miss Yvonne Drewe, of 88, Bath-road, tells us that she has received a postcard, containing a 60-word message from her cousin (Mr. Eric Kennard), in the course of which he says that his father, also an internee at the same camp, has received a letter from her father, and that they have received several letters from the mother in Australia. <Read more ...>
