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4 unusual facts about Harry Keith


Berhala Island, Sabah

During the war, civilian internees, including Agnes Newton Keith and her husband Harry Keith were held in the quarantine station which served as a makeshift internment camp, before being transferred to Batu Lintang camp in Kuching, Sarawak.

Harry Keith

Keith was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, to English parents and grew up there, before being sent abroad to be schooled in England and then in California, United States.

Henry Keith

Harry Keith, Henry George Keith, (1899-1982) British Conservator of Forests in North Borneo

Sandakan

Agnes Keith House, also known as Newlands - two-storey home of local author Agnes Newton Keith and her husband Harry Keith (Conservator of Forests and Curator of the North Borneo Museum).



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