25. Talks were given in the POW camps to fight depression and keep minds occupied.
26. Sinking of the Lisbon Maru in the China Sea on 20th October 1942. A pencil sketch drawn by Lieutenant W C Johnston, US Navy, while a prisoner of war at Kobe, Japan.
27. Royal Navy landing parties go ashore to guard key points in Hong Kong, 30th August 1945.
28. Some of the first British internees to be released from Stanley Camp, Hong Kong.
29. Two Japanese war criminals in Stanley prison. On the left is Colonel Tokunaga Isao who was responsible for the POW camps. On the right is Lieutenant Colonel Kanazawa, the infamous commander of the Military Police, who was executed.
30. Major Charles Boxer, Major General Maltby’s senior Intelligence Officer, in November 1945.
31. Identifying remains of Canadian war dead at Hong Kong, April 1947.
32. One of Admiral Harcourt’s officers making a note of POWs’ names following the liberation on 30th August 1945.
33. Former POWs at Shamshuipo, waiting for repatriation, listen to a loudspeaker broadcasting the latest news. John Harris is centre-right in the foreground below the pole with a patch on his trousers!
34. British servicemen guard Japanese soldiers after their surrender, 30th August 1945.
35. Liberated POWs cheering their US Navy rescuers at Aomori in Japan.
36. Limbless but cheerful, repatriated POWs on board HM hospital ship Oxfordshire as she left Hong Kong for the UK.
37. Major General Umetichi Odada signs the surrender document watched by British, American, Canadian and Chinese officers in Government House, 16th September 1945.
38. The Victory Parade at the Cenotaph in September 1945. The New Territories can be seen in the distance.
39. Sir Mark Young inspects a Guard of Honour on his return to Hong Kong.
40. John Harris (centre-left) presenting a gold key to Sheikh Ali at the opening of the State Hospital in Doha in 1957.
41. Tuen Mun Hospital, Castle Peak, Hong Kong (1,600 beds). Architect John R Harris, 1981.
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