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• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "BRITISH FORCES IN BURMA, MALAYA AND KONG KONG, 1941 - 1942" (photographs) Made by: Palmer Fred (Hon Lt)

  Prelude 1939 - 8 December 1941: The frontier dividing Hong Kong and Japanese-occupied China in 1941. A Japanese sentry seen through the barbed wire frontier fence at Sha Tau Kok.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "BRITISH FORCES IN BURMA, MALAYA AND KONG KONG, 1941 - 1942" (photographs) Made by: Palmer Fred (Hon Lt)

  Prelude 1939 - 8 December 1941: Newly trained officers and NCOs of the Chinese Battalion, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. The Corps was the largest military unit of the Hong Kong Garrison at the time of the Japanese invasion.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Liberation and Repatriation August - September 1945: The Union Jack is raised at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong, watched by the internees.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: The living conditions at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong (photographed after liberation in 1945). Two internees are shown in a room normally occupied by seven.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: The meagre rations resulted in many cases of severe malnutrition. An Indian prisoner of war from Hong Kong is attended to by nursing staff (Sick Berth Attendant Hodson and Leading Sick Berth Attendant...

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939 - 1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Prisoners of war and internees at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong, who were tortured and executed by the Japanese, inscribed their names and dates of execution on their cell walls as a record. The photograph shows the inscription made by D W...

• Pay the Piper - What About Your Share?

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the main image occupies the majority of the upper two-thirds and is held within a narrow black border, with a smaller image positioned lower centre. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in red cursive script, with the subtitle...

• Untitled

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the centre, held within a circular black border and set against a white background. The text is separate, set against a red background, and positioned in the upper third, in white outlined black, and lower right and lower left,...

• Pacific Star (1941-1945)

  (decorations and awards)

  Sidney Albert Skinner (1913-1943) died aged 30 on 3 March 1943 as a prisoner of the Japanese in Kobe Camp, Japan. He is buried in Yokohama War Cemetery. He was the son of Albert and Alice Skinner of Sheerness, Kent; husband of Mabel Matilda Skinner, of...

• shorts, handmade, Far East Civilian Internee

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Handmade shorts improvised from the remnants of flour sacks, associated with the service of Archibald Elston who had been Assistant Superintendant in the Hong Kong Police before being made a civilian internee in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong during the Second...