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Description: | Transcription (110pp ts) of his informative and excellently written journal kept between 7 December 1941 – 27 September 1945, at the outset of which he was serving as a Sergeant with the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), recording his mobilisation and preparing air raid shelters, retreat to and defence of Stanley Fort and subsequently Stanley village, close-quarters fighting with Japanese troops until the general surrender on 25 December 1941, confinement in Stanley Fort and at North Point before being transferred to Shamshuipo camp in late January 1942 (where he was a prisoner with his father, a Sergeant Major in the HKVDC), volunteering for working parties at Kai Tak airfield and (briefly) on the Taipo road, the spread of beri-beri and other diseases amongst the prisoners, transfer to Japan in January 1943 and imprisonment in a shipyard camp at Innoshima (part of the Fukuoka camp complex), working on ship construction and repairs, increasing American air raids during the latter half of 1944 and early 1945, the end of the war and his eventual evacuation to Australia in September 1945 (Millington returned to Hong Kong the following year); together with a transcription (30pp ts) of the journal kept by his father-in-law Arthur Jeffreys during March 1917 – January 1918 whilst serving as an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy submarine E1 with the Baltic Flotilla.
Cataloguer SWW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jeffreys, Arthur | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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