Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1941
The little notebook that became Mrs Grace Smith’s diary of her time in Stanley Internment camp was not shiny and new. We might surmise that it had once belonged to a teacher. It appears to show part of their weekly timetable, teaching Forms 3A and 3B.<Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1941
It is remarkable that this battered little notebook, measuring only 8cm x 6cm, has survived as at least a partial record of Grace Smith's time in Stanley Internment Camp some 80 years ago. <Read more ...>
This is part of the story of Mrs Grace Smith (John Anton-Smith's grandmother), a blind lady who was brought from the UK to Hong Kong to be looked after by her son, Raymond. He employed a lady known only as Chan, who became a devoted companion, to drive her around and otherwise see to her needs. John inherited this battered little diary, measuring only 6cm x 8cm, in which Grace, with the help of an unknown scribe, recounted various events during her time in Stanley Internment Camp. <Read more ...>
This review does not need the catch-all subtitle, “The man who owned all the opium in Hong Kong” as the book is full to the brim with 350 pages of dense and fascinating information of a life that stretches from 1914 till 1993,as told to Jonathan Chamberlain, of which pages 126 to 196, record all his adventures under the Japanese occupation.
