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Some encouragements from medical and surgical work (Hong Kong Argyle St. Camp and Japan Shinagawa POW Camp) by H. L. Cleave

Submitted by Alan Ho on Wed, 02/14/2024 - 11:41

James MacKenzie JACK [1895-1944]

Submitted by jill on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 20:20

James Mackenzie Jack inherited the engineering company W.C. Jack & Co. Ltd. from his father, William Jack, on his death in 1919. He was serving in Salonika with his brother at the time of his father's death. I don't know his brother's name, or if he returned safely to Hong Kong. When my uncle, Leslie Warren, had to wind up C.E. Warren & Co. in May, 1941, James Jack asked him to take over the Jacks branch in Penang while the then MD took six months leave. Jack became a POW and was in the fifth transportation to Japan, where he died in a POW camp on 15 September 1944.

North Point Refugee / POW camp [1938-????]

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:12

Moddsey notes it was originally built as a refugee camp:

PWD Report 1938

North Point Refugee Camp was completed in November 1938 to accommodate the influx of refugees from the Mainland. The camp comprised 26 huts of timber construction with concrete floors, except the kitchen which had brick walls. Access to the camp was via Kam Hong Road (St) and Marble Road.

Similar refugee camps were constructed in Ma Tau Chung and King's Park The camps were run by the Medical Department with some aid received from charitable organisations

1939 North Point Refugee Camp

Ma Tau Chung Refugee then POW Camp / Ma Tau Wai internment camp [1938-????]

Submitted by David on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 14:44

As we've just added a place for the Argyle Street camp, here's one for the Ma Tau Chung (also spelled Chong) camp, which was just across the road.

Again, Tony Banham's books and website are the best reference on the subject. On the website he writes:

Argyle Street Camp for Chinese Interned Soldiers / POW Camp [1939-????]

Submitted by David on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 14:49

It was initially built in 1939 as a camp for interned Chinese soldiers. During the Japanese occupation it was used as a POW camp, then after the war it was used as temporary accommodation for groups of people passing through Hong Kong. Around the end of the 1940s it was combined with a piece of empty land to the west and became the Argyle Street army camp.

Timeline:

  • 1939. The camp was built for interned Chinese soldiers who had surrendered in Hong Kong in 1938.

Sham Shui Po Military Camp / POW Camp / Vietnamese Refugee Camp [1927-????]

Submitted by David on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 17:08

1927. A camp for soldiers is built here on the recently reclaimed land. (See PWD report for 1927, quoted in the comments below.)

1941. 'C' Force (the Canadian troops) arrive in Hong Kong, and initially stay here.

1942-45. Used by the Japanese as a Prisoner of War camp to hold Allied soldiers.