Interview with Raymond Mok

Chinese NCO served with Field Ambulance, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Fortress Command during Battle of Hong Kong, 8/12/1941-25/12/1941; prisoner of war in Sham Shui Po Camp in Hong Kong, 12/1941-9/1942; served as medical orderly with British Army Aid Group in China, 10/1942-8/1945

REEL 1 Background in Hong Kong, 1920-1937: family; education. Aspects of period as private and NCO with Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps in Hong Kong, 1937-1941: initial enlistment with No 4 (Machine Gun) Coy, 1937; transfer to Field Ambulance, 1939; nature of training; nature of defences of Hong Kong, 1941; organisation of temporary hospitals. Recollections of operations with Field Ambulance, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Fortress Command during Battle of Hong Kong, 8/12/1941-25/12/1941: mobilisation, 7/12/1941; Japanese forces attack on Hong Kong, 8/12/1941; move to post at Mount Davis and subsequently to Jubilee Battery; Imperial Japanese Army Air Service bombing; types of wounds dealt with; hearing details of attack on hospital at St Stephen's College. Recollections of period as prisoner of war in Sham Shui Po Camp, Hong Kong, 12/1941-9/1942: surrender, 25/12/1941; march to Sham Shui Po Camp; conditions in Sham Shui Po Camp; early escapes; role in charge of rations; medical control in camp; diseases in camp. REEL 2 Continues: parcels received by Chinese prisoners of war; use of Chinese medicines; communication with family; special work status of Chinese prisoners of war; relations between Chinese medical students; camp concerts; religious services; punishments for escapes; relations with Formosan interpreters; medical improvisation in camp; release of Chinese prisoner of war from camp, 8/9/1942; signing of pledge not to escape from Hong Kong and fight against Japanese forces. Recollections of period as medical orderly with British Army Aid Group in China, 10/1942-8/1945: background to leaving Hong Kong for China; journey to Waichow; role as medical officer with Chinese National Revolutionary Army forces at Tamshui; medical and intelligence work in Kweichow; character of medical work. REEL 3 Continues: opinion of National Revolutionary Army Communist People's Liberation Army forces; lack of medics in China; agent traffic between Hong Kong and China; character of British Army Aid Group; dealing with Nationalist and Communist Chinese; news of dropping of atomic bombs on Japan, 8/1945; return to Hong Kong. Aspects of period living in Hong Kong, 1945-1997: work in Queen Mary Hospital; medical studies in Hong Kong and GB, from 1947; opinion of handover of Hong Kong to People's Republic of China; question of democracy in Hong Kong.