David Knox was my mother's brother. My mother spent 3 years and 8 months as an internee working at the hospital in Stanley Internment Camp. Her husband, father and 2 of her brothers, David and Charles, became prisoners of war.

David Knox was a very popular man who was an accomplished pianist.

We understand that he was a very strong swimmer, but we also understand that he was not in great physical condition by the time of the Lisbon Maru incident. Incarceration had obviously taken its toll.

We have been told that he escaped the ship, but was machine gunned to death trying to swim away. A letter we received from a family friend says that a Jack Seeby ( John Seaby a fellow member of Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) helped David over the side, but when he asked how David was he replied "Not so good" so Jack did not expect to see him again.