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Embroidered cloth sheet associated with the experiences of Mrs Day Joyce as an internee in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong during the Second World War. In March 1940 Mrs Day Joyce (née Daisy Mary Sage) accepted a job as a biologist for the Hong Kong Education Department. After the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong on 7 December 1941 she joined other auxiliary nurses to work in La Salle College, an emergency hospital. After the capture of the island she was interned in Stanley Camp. During her internment she embroidered this sheet, which contains approximately 1,100 embroidered names of other internees in the Camp. It also contains two years' of camp diaries in coded words, signs, symbols and colours. The sheet was hidden between the rugs on her camp bed. For further information see 'The Day Joyce Sheet' by Bernice Archer (February 2002) held in the Department of Exhibits and Firearms and also 'Ordinary People: The Sheet'. Mrs Day Joyce's memoirs are held in the IWM's Department of Documents.
History note
In March 1940 Mrs Day Joyce (née Daisy Mary Sage) accepted a job as a biologist for the Hong Kong Education Department. After the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong on 7 December 1941 she joined other auxiliary nurses to work in La Salle College, an emergency hospital. After the capture of the island she was interned in Stanley Camp. During her internment she embroidered this sheet, which contains approximately 1,100 embroidered names of other internees in Stanley Camp. It also contains two years' of camp diaries in coded words, signs, symbols and colours. The sheet was hidden between the rugs on her camp bed. For further information see 'The Day Joyce Sheet' by Bernice Archer (February 2002) held in the Department of Exhibits and Firearms and also 'Ordinary People: The Sheet'. Mrs Day Joyce's memoirs are held in the IWM's Department of Documents.
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cloth sheet with over 1,100 embroidered signatures.
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