Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
John Charter's diary entry for 1 Mar 1942 mentions Vera:
She speaks Japanese fluently, having been born in, I think, Yokohama, and lived in Japan for the first eleven years of her life and returned there later.
Comments
Vera Joan Armstrong/Dalziel nee THWAITES 1905 - 1985
Voyage October 1928 Southampton to Hong Kong
Harold J Armstrong age 28 solicitor (Died 1984 Hove Sussex)
Vera Joan Armstrong 24 domestic duties born 20 February 1905
She was the wife of Harold John Armstrong solicitor until 1946 when he petitioned for dissolution of the marriage citing A G Dalziel as co-respondent. (Carl Smith)
The children of her marriage to Harold J Armstrong were
John Robin Charles Armstrong born 2 September 1933 and baptised 10 November 1933 at St. John's Cathedral son of Harold John Armstrong and Vera Joan
Bridget Ann V Armstrong listed in Children in Stanley i as born 26 December 1931.
Vera Joan Dalziell died 1985 New Forest Hampshire She was the second wife of Adam Gray Dalziel
Harold John Armstrong married at least once more.
Vera Joan Armstrong
In an article in The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury on 17 December 1943, Mrs. Aloha Ellison Shields after her return to the United States, mentioned that Mrs. Kerr (likely Vera Kerr, wife of Stanley Robert Kerr), Mrs. Harold Armstrong (Vera Joan Armstrong) and Mrs. Hospes provided great help in the camp, all being able to speak Japanese. See here