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Argyle Street Camp was a Japanese
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in Kowloon, Hong Kong, which primarily held officer prisoners.


World War II

Built by the Hong Kong government as a refugee camp before the war as
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and
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List of Internment Camps in Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation (1941 – 1945)
/ref> it began life as a POW camp soon after Kowloon and the
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were abandoned to the Japanese. In January 1942 it was emptied, with the POWs moving to
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, North Point, and Ma Tau Chung Camps. However, after a number of escapes by POW officers and other ranks from Shamshuipo, Argyle Street was re-opened in mid-1942 as an officers' camp. In 1944 the officers were moved instead to Camp 'N' at Shamshuipo, and the Indian POWs from Ma Tau Chung Camp took up residence.


After World War II

After the Japanese surrender, Argyle Street Camp became a centre for displaced people returning to Hong Kong. Later still, it was a camp for refugees reaching Hong Kong from other parts of South East Asia. The camp started accommodating
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in June 1979, with a planned capacity of 20,000. Today there are no memorials of any kind on the site of the camp, which is just to the south of St Teresa's Hospital.


See also

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Japanese occupation of Hong Kong The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. The surrender occurred after 18 days of fierce ...
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List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...
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Argyle Street, Hong Kong Argyle Street is a four-lane dual-way thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, connecting the districts of Mong Kok, Ho Man Tin, Ma Tau Wai and Kowloon City. It runs on an east-west alignment starting at its intersection with Cherry Street, Fe ...
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Stanley Internment Camp Stanley Internment Camp () was a civilian internment camp in Hong Kong during the Second World War. Located in Stanley, on the southern end of Hong Kong Island, it was used by the Japanese imperial forces to hold non- Chinese enemy nationals a ...


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* * Japanese occupation of Hong Kong Kowloon City District Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps {{Japan-mil-hist-stub