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The motto was ---
"All for one, and one for all"
The emblem was, a lily flower on a clover embroided by the boys' mothers and sisters. Father Hanquet explained that the Japanese forbade us to use the emblems of the Royal Families. The "fleur de Lys" is the emblem of the Kings of France and that is why the clover was used. But what the Japanese did not know, was that the "clover" was the emblem of the Scouts of France. !! The scarf, was a white handkerchief dipped into blue ink.
Father Hanquet writes ;
"The very beginning of the Scout patrol was constituted by 7 or 8 boys. Junior Chan, a Canadian-Chinese, catholic of 14 years old who could be the patrol leader, Sandy, an Eurasian, the de Zutter brothers, Belgians of 14 and 12 years, and also 3 to 4 Britons. There was a good mixture of Catholics and Protestants and there even was an Orthodox boy. With A. Palmers, we decided to give the responsibility of the group to Cockburn and we accepted to work more as assistants than as priests. "
The picture was taken on the South Field and the wall in the background, is the camp's boundary wall.
The photographer was somebody of the Cheefoo School staff. Who? Father Hanquet could not remember.
Standing:
(from left to right)
Eddy Cooke // David ???//Richard Jones//George Wats (Porky)//John de Zutter//Gui Chan//Mickey Marques//Johnny Beaten-Georgiles.
Sitting:
Peter Turner//Alby de Zutter//Father Palmer//Cockburn//Father E. Hanquet//Sotolongo??//???.
Front row:
Jacky Campbell//Michael Turner//???//Eddy Chan//Vova Bonner.
(excerpt from
Norman Cliff's book:
An important feature
of camp life was the Rollcall,
which was usually held
twice a day. In some camps
this entailed the internees
numbering off in Japanese.
If someone in the group was
on work duty, a person who
was normally number 57
now became number 56;
and not all could adjust to
this change linguistically.
The guard on duty would
give a report in front of the
prisoners to his superior, which went something like
this: "There should be 149 people in this section. There
are 139 present, 6 are on work duty and 4 are sick.
