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November 9, 2020 Dear Tom, I stumbled across your web site thanks to Google! I have been researching the lives of my family members who were interned in Chapei Camp during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai during WW2. All four of my Grandparents were interned with their children. In total there were 11 people from two different families. My mother and father met in camp. They kept in touch after liberation and married in 1952, in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was my home (I was born in 1955) until 2016, when I moved back to UK. Some details for you: My maternal grandparents were Alice and George BAILEY. They were missionaries in China. Left UK as two single people from the same church in the east end of London. They were married in Shanghai and their children were all born in China. George and Alice had four children, Alan (my father), Geoffrey, Winston and Grace. Grace sadly died not long after their release from Chapei, from meningitis. She was buried in Shanghai. Geoffrey and Wintson are still alive. My paternal grandparents were Winifred and George FLYNN. George was an ex-Royal navy sailor but at the time of their internment, he had been employed to work for the China Maritime Customs, being posted from Treaty Port to Port on the Chinese coast. Winifred and George had three children. Patsy, Peggy (my mother) and Eric. Patsy is still alive. In the early 200’s I visited Shanghai and managed to locate the place where Chapei Camp had been situated. It was a University before the war and the Japanese obviously saw the potential as a POW camp as it was a gated institution, Very easy to police with guards. It reverted back to it’s original use after the war and is still used as an educational institute now. I took many photographs. I also have many photographs of my relatives from their time in China. Kindest regards Derek Bailey  or would like to be added to my POW/Internee e-mail distribution list, please let the me know. Thanks! |