In January 1942 it was emptied, with the POWs moving to Shamshuipo, North Point, and Ma Tau Chung Camps.

[citation needed] After the Japanese surrender, Argyle Street Camp became a centre for displaced people returning to Hong Kong.

Later still, it was a camp for refugees reaching Hong Kong from other parts of South East Asia.

The camp started accommodating Vietnamese refugees in June 1979, with a planned capacity of 20,000.

[2] Today there are no memorials of any kind on the site of the camp, which is just to the south of St Teresa's Hospital.