Stanley Internment Camp
In 1940, Digby met Mutal Fielding on a P&amp;O liner on the way back to Kuching, and they became engaged in Singapore in 1941. Mutal lived in Hong Kong, and before they could be married, the war intervened. Mutal was interned at Stanley Internment Camp, and among the many other internees was Kenelm's cousin Professor Kenelm Hutchinson Digby, who was the head of surgery at Hong Kong University. Digby and Mutal were finally reunited in November 1945 in Southampton, when Digby arrived home on HMS "Ranchi". The Digbys were married on 21 February 1946 at Sherfield English, near Romsey, Hampshire, before he returned to Sarawak. Digby rejoined the Sarawak Civil Service as Legal Adviser, rising to become Attorney-General and editor of the "Sarawak Gazette" and a circuit judge.