Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
Barbara Petro was working at the American Consulate at the time of the Japanese attack of December 8, 1941. With the rest of the American diplomats and staff, she was held in a house just outside the boundaries of Stanley until just before the June/July repatriation, which she joined. Her husband had already escaped from Hong Kong, and it's believed she joined him in the USA.
Source:
Emily Hahn, China to Me, 1987 ed., 293, 307, 368.
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Barbara Petro's
Barbara Petro's gravestone:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=25909454&PIpi=101…
She's also mentioned in this newspaper report of her father's death in the newspaper for Aug 12, 1942:
[...] Another daughter, Barbara Petro-Pavlovsky, wife of Major Vladimir Petro- Pavlavsky ((sic.)) of the British Army, is a passenger on the Gripsholm, the ship carrying allied citizens from the Orient under diplomatic exchange.
((Sorry I closed the browser before noting the url...))
And this claim for payment for her destroyed property gives her title in Hong Kong as "Foreign Service clerk":
http://books.google.com.hk/books?ei=SQolU_L1KuaWiQfp1oDYCg&id=MZ5dug_I2…