From the South China Morning Post this week in: 1965
A New Zealander who escaped from the Sham Shui Po camp during the Japanese occupation by climbing over the electrified wires and swimming cross Lai Chi Kok bay to the hills returned to Hong Kong.
Lieutenant Commander Ralph Goodwin RN came in the British ship Taiyuan to join other POWs returning for a remembrance visit.
At the outbreak of the war Mr Goodwin was a first lieutenant on board a Royal Navy motor torpedo boat, MTB 10.
'I was wounded just before the surrender and spent two months in Queen Mary Hospital and Naval Hospital,' he said. Mr Goodwin was taken prisoner while at the university which was then being used as a temporary hospital. He was sent to North Point camp at the end of 1942, later transferred to the Argyle Street camp and then moved to the Sham Shui Po camp in 1944.
Six weeks later he made the escape, which he had had on his mind ever since being captured.