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Updates for Corporal Cornelius Charles Stimpson
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27/12/2020 Notification of the death of Mr Cornelius Charles Stimpson in Hong Kong Prisoner of War Camp has been received from the Colonial Office via the International Red Cross. Mr Stimpson joined the Hong Kong Defence Force as a volunteer some time before war became imminent in the Far East, and on account of his knowledge of railway construction work he was assigned to the Royal Engineers for demolition duties. Some six years ago he took up an appointment under the Colonial Office as a Permanent Way Inspector on the Canton and Kowloon Railway. His previous experience on the L.M.S. Railway (N.C.C.) enables him to be of great service, and after a short interval, he was admitted to the permanent staff. His wife, who was Miss Eileen Hutchinson, of Magherafelt, was evacuated to Australian about twelve months before the Japanese opened hostilities. A son was born shortly after her arrival there and is now about three years of age. Son of the late Mr and Mrs C H Stimpson of Brookvale, Magherafelt, the late Mr Stimpson was predeceased by his father some five months. The cause of death is given as avitaminosis, which can only mean slow starvation.
27/12/2020 Cornelius Stimpson became the husband of Eileen Hutchinson of Magherafelt.
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27/12/2020 STIMPSON – Cornelius Charles, much loved brother of Hilda Cathcart, Dorothy Stimpson and May McAlester (of prolonged privation)
27/12/2020 Around 1937, Mr and Mrs Stimpson emigrated from Magherafelt to China to take up an appointment under the Colonial Office as a Permanent Way Inspector on the Canton and Kowloon Railway.
27/12/2020 Mr Stimpson joined the Hong Kong Defence Force as a volunteer some time before war became imminent in the Far East.
27/12/2020 His wife Eileen was evacuated from Hong Kong to Australia and their sonn was born shortly after her arrival there, around 1940.
27/12/2020 Corporal Cornelius Stimpson served with the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps in World War Two.
27/12/2020 On account of his knowledge of railway construction work he was assigned to the Royal Engineers for demolition duties.
27/12/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 30th October 1943:
27/12/2020 Cornelius’ father died in March 1943.
27/12/2020 Corporal Cornelius Charles Stimpson died a prisoner of war on 27th August 1943, aged 40. The cause of death was given as avitaminosis, a general medical term describing any disease is caused by a vitamin deficiency in the diet, implying malnutrition.
27/12/2020 At the time of his death, his wife and son were living at 24 Bark Street, 5 Flatside, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.
27/12/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 30th October 1943: Roll of Honour – Died a Prisoner of War
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27/12/2020 STIMPSON – At Hong Kong Camp on 27th August 1943, Cornelius Charles Stimpson, Royal Engineers, Hong Kong Defence Force, only son of the late Mr and Mrs C H Stimpson of Magherafelt. Beloved Husband of Eileen (nee Hutchinson), 24 Bark Street, 5 Flatside, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.
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27/12/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 30th October 1943: Obituary – Mr C C Stimpson, Late of Magherafelt
27/12/2020 Corporal Stimpson was captured by the Japanese on 25th December 1941.
25/04/2020 The relatives of Mr Connie Stimpson have got word from the Colonial Office that he is now a prisoner of war. Mr and Mrs Stimpson emigrated from Magherafelt to China just before the outbreak of war, on his appointment to the important position of Inspector of Railways at Kowloon. His wife and young son were evacuated from Hong Kong to Australia, just in time, and until the present news arrived, there was no information forthcoming regarding Mr Stimpson. The news, it may be mentioned, was received through the International Red Cross from the Japanese authorities. Mr Stimpson is a brother-in-law of Mr Richard Paul of Magherafelt and his father will be remembered as railway inspector at Magherafelt. And he and his family are well remembered by many friends.
25/04/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 5th December 1942: Prisoner of War
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16/04/2020 Family: Charles Henry Stimpson, Sarah Jane Stimpson, Hilda Stimpson (born about 1892), Dorothy Stimpson (born about 1894), May Stimpson (born about 1896), Cornelius Charles Stimpson (born about 1903).
16/04/2020 Cornelius Charles Stimpson was the only son of Charles Henry and Sarah Jane Stimpson. Charles Henry Stimson was born in Sheffield about 1866. He married Sarah Jane Wilkinson about 1891 in Sheffield.
16/04/2020 The CWGC record Corporal Cornelius Charles Stimpson as the son of Charles Henry and Sarah Jane Stimpson. He is also recorded as the husband of Margaret Isobel Stimpson of Leeds, Yorkshire.
16/04/2020 The 1901 English census records the family in Staveley, Derbyshire.
16/04/2020 Cornelius Charles Stimpson was born about 1903 in England. All the children were born in England.
16/04/2020 The 1911 census lists Cornelius as age 8, living with the family at house 26 in Townparks, Magherafelt. Townparks district was the centre of Magherafelt. Charles was a railway inspector.
16/04/2020 Cornelius attended the Rainey School circa 1915.
16/04/2020 Corporal Cornelius Charles Stimpson was later reinterred at Stanley Military Cemetery in Hong Kong on 29th May 1957. His inscription reads: THY WILL BE DONE
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16/04/2020 Corporal Cornelius Stimpson was initially buried in a small cemetery at the Argyle Street P.O.W. camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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