Complex sentence: In the early 1940s, Cyril Goldbert was living in Shanghai when the Japanese Army took over Shanghai's International Settlement on 8 December 1941, and as a British citizen he was interned in the Lunghua civilian internment camp on 10 April 1943.
Split into simpler sentences: In the early 1940s, Cyril Goldbert was living in Shanghai when the Japanese Army took over Shanghai's International Settlement on 8 December 1941. As a British citizen Cyril Goldbert was interned in the Lunghua civilian internment camp on 10 April 1943.