World War II

Camp Album Crests

Prison Camp Album — Coats of Arms Back to Introduction When Hong Kong was surrendered to the Japanese on Christmas day, 1941, British prisoners of war were incarcerated in Sham Shui Po Camp.  Among them were Portuguese members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.  Company Sergeant Major Marciano “Naneli” Baptista, a talented artist, produced a […]

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Camp Album

Prison Camp Album The images in this section were from an album of Marciano Francisco de Paula “Naneli” Baptista MBE, mostly of his own drawings when he was a prisoner-of-war in Shamshuipo Camp, Kowloon, Hong Kong. His nephew Filomeno Marciano “Meno” Baptista kindly gave permission for them to be included in this website. Marciano “Naneli” Baptista (1896-1957) was the

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Camp Album Tributes

Prison Camp Album — Tributes Back to Introduction During World War II, when Hong Kong was surrendered to the Japanese on Christmas day, 1941, British prisoners of war were incarcerated in Sham Shui Po Camp.  Among them were Portuguese members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.  Company Sergeant Major Marciano “Naneli” Baptista, a talented

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NaneliAlbumOfDrawings

Prison Camp Album The images in this section were from an album of Marciano Francisco de Paula “Naneli” Baptista MBE, mostly of his own drawings when he was a prisoner-of-war in Shamshuipo Camp, Kowloon, Hong Kong. His nephew Filomeno Marciano “Meno” Baptista kindly gave permission for them to be included in this website. Marciano “Naneli” Baptista (1896-1957) was the

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WarMemories

Memories of World War II By Henry d’Assumpção It was a great feast-day, celebrating the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. For me, then seven years old in Hong Kong, it was a holiday from school, for my older brother a half-holiday. So breakfast was leisurely that morning when our father announced solemnly: “War can

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Escape from Shamshuipo Camp

Escape from Shamshuipo Camp January 1942 by Joyce Osmund Van Langenberg “Shit!”  swore aloud. “What kind of crap place is this?” He gazed in disgust at the devastation around him. In peacetime Shamshuipo Barracks provided amenable accommodation for thousands of men particularly from The 1st Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment. More comfortable than most barracks, it was

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Long March

The Long March by Joyce Van Langenberg A feverish excitement swept through Tung Cheong Terrace from building to building, floor to floor and balcony to balcony like a succession of waves that rolled in from the sea towards the shingled beaches. The atmosphere was euphoric filled with wild anticipation unlike the trauma of gth December 1941

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Alex

Alex 25th December 1941 by Joyce Osmund Van Langenberg Christmas 1941 was one of the greyest and grimmest in Hong Kong’s history, distinctly lacking the flavour and frivolity of Christmases past. Streets and pavements were devoid of last minute shoppers as the spirit of Christmas dwindled to a dim memory now that the battle in

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Hetty’s Story

Hetty’s Story by Joyce Osmund Van Langenberg The village of Homantin lay several miles northeast of Tsimshatsui in a stretch of rural land nestling within gentle hills. The Hakka farmers who lived there were content, the soil fertile and productive, their vegetable plots so symmetrical they looked like quilts spread out in the sunshine. Swathes of

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Refugees

REFUGIADOS por Padre Manuel Teixeira REFUGEES by Padre Manuel Teixeira Esta cidade que antes da guerra contava uns cem mil habitantes, viu de repente a sua população engrossar para meio milhão. A de Hong Kong, que era dum cilhão, com a ocupação japonesa desceu para 300 mil. Quem veio? De Hong Kong vieram 2.500 portugueses,

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