Helen HO [1915-????]

Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 06/12/2014 - 17:46
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Helen
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Ho
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Female
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Deceased
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Helen Ho was the daughter of Ethel Zimmern (In Fong) and Ho Lu. She studied at the Diocesan Girls School.

During the Japanese occupation she was tireless in arranging relief, both legal and secret, for the camps, especially Bowen Road Miitary Hospital. She was imprisoned on three occasions for this, but survived the war to be honoured with an OBE.

It's unlikely that anything like the the full extent of her wartime services will ever be known.

She was alive in 2008 but has since died.

 

Peter Hall, In the Web,2012, 226

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I wonder if the Helen Ho mentioned above is a different person?

Several accounts (eg https://gwulo.com/node/58678) mention that the Helen Ho who helped POWs was the sister of Yvonne Ho. They are described on page 34 of Peter Hall's In The Web, 2012 edition:

No. 8 Florence, married Ho Cheuk, a younger brother of Ho Kwong. They had five daughters:

Helen, Kathleen, Yvonne, Elaine and Mamie. They also had a son Charles, who died in his youth.

Or have you seen that the Helen Ho born in 1915, and shown in the family tree on page 225 of the same book, was also active in supporting people in the camps?

1.

何世耀＝施燕芳（Ethel Zimmern）

  • 何婉端（Stella née Ho） ＝George M. Davreux
  • 何婉宜（Helen Ho）
  • 何鴻超（John Ho）＝Florence née Kwok（郭天佑）
  • 何婉芬（Vivienne née Ho） ＝Raymond Cheng （陳賢良）
  • 何婉明（Audrey née Ho） ＝Perry Tcheng （鄭寶慶）
  • 何鴻堅（Kenny Ho）=張秀梅、羅麗麗
  • 何婉彬（Daphne Ho）
  • 何鴻瑞（David）=Ho Yuen Fu
  • 何鴻輝（Peter Ho）

sources : https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/何東家族

2.

Another Helen Ho who assisted the POWs with Yvonne Ho, whose Chinese name is 何婉衡 / 何婉衍 https://gwulo.com/node/15361