Description
Object description
sweater
Physical description
Cream sweater with cartoons drawn on the front and back and has also been autographed by Far East Civilian Internees
Label
The shirt was from a Red Cross parcel divided up amongst the internees and given to Carl Lopes in Lunghwa Camp 1944-45. A fellow internee student, Jimmy Lovelock, drew most of the cartoons and most of the signatures are of those of boys in 'E' Block who were camp 'orphans' or sons of single parents. The other signatures were from the 'Gang', boys and girls who attended the Lunghwa Academy to complete their education, as well as members of the school staff, the kitchen team, the water team (responsible for boiling the rationed drinking water) and the Lunghwa Amateur Dramatic Society.
History note
This sweater was from a Red Cross parcel that was divided up amongst the internees and given to Carl Lopes in Lunghwa Camp 1944-45. A fellow internee student, Jimmy Lovelock, drew most of the cartoons and most of the signatures are of those of boys in 'E' Block who were camp 'orphans' or sons of single parents. The other signatures were from the 'Gang', boys and girls who attended the Lunghwa Academy to complete their education, as well as members of the school staff, the kitchen team, the water team (responsible for boiling the rationed drinking water) and the Lunghwa Amateur Dramatic Society.
Lunghwa Civil Assembly Centre was one of the largest civilian internment camps in China. Housed in a former school, it held 2,000 internees, among them the author J G Ballard who was interned there as a child. He later wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun about his experiences.
Drawn/written on
girl, boy and face of man in hat
Inscription
signatures of internees, including:
Bella Barrs;
Leslie Bauld [Robert Leslie Bauld];
Jackie Beattie?;
? E Bell [possibly Dorothy Eileen Bell, Gertrude Elizabeth Bell, or Gwendoline Edna Bell];
Billy Brandt [William Grosvenor Brandt];
K M Campbell [Kenneth M Campbell];
D H Clarke [David Howell Clarke];
Jock Crighton?;
R Davidson [Robert Davidson];
Irene Duguid [Irene Margaret Duguid];
R E Hayward [Richard Edmund Hayward];
C J Huckstep [Christopher John Huckstep];
M B Jenkins [Mary Badham Jenkins];
John MacKay;
Irene Noon [May Irene Noon];
J Orchin [James Michael Orchin];
G B Sayle [Gordon Benn Sayle];
G Sellheim [Cyril George Sellheim];
M Sellheim [Michael Sellheim];
Joyce M Skues [Joyce Mary Skues];
Reggie Tyler [George Reginald Tyler];
P Tyler [Patricia Alice Tyler];
Pat White [Patricia White];
T O White [Thomas Oswald White];
Margaret? Wright;
and undetermined names:-
'Denny Boy'; 'Paddy'; 'Jimmy L'; 'Specky'; 'nutty'; and others.
Inscription
cat's head