A mystery. Not able to view the man's surname on the American List nor on the John Black's List of internees at Stanley Camp.
1. As indicated below, his surname could be Kiley:
a) 2 Jun 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp - In view of the coming repatriation and the fact that about 40 Americans are choosing to stay, new officers are elected: Chester Bennett becomes Chairman of the Council, Father Meyer Vice Chairman, Mr. Gregory, Secretary and Mr. Kiley, Treasurer.
b) 23 April 1943, The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury newspaper - ........certain reassuring facts have come to hand through different sources, indicating a slightly less rigid control of internees at Camp Stanley by the Japanese. A telegram has been received by the Red Cross, Washington from Father Twoley*, Maryknoll missionary, Hongkong. It came via Chungking. He gave news of ten Americans who refused repatriation in the Gripsholm, electing to stay in Hongkong: Bill Kiley, ex-Socony;
c) 10 Mar 1945, John Charter's wartime journal - Mr Kiley, the Chairman of the few remaining Americans in camp, paid a visit yesterday to Lt Hara and asked him when the American parcels were arriving in camp. Kiley spoke to us this morning while we were wood cutting and he said that Hara received him very cordially and said he was glad he had come.
2. Whereas Kiely appears below:
a) 30 Nov 1943, Report on Stanley Camp from M S Gripsholm Repatriates - Numbers. There are still over 2,500 internees, men, women and children, in Stanley camp. The majority is naturally British. Approximately twenty United States citizens remain. These include: Mr Kiely and wife; the latter is British; with daughter and son also British.
Not sure if Kiely in 2. is a typo. In any case, the man was a U. S. citizen who had forgone repatriation and remained in Stanley Camp. He was on the Internment Camp Committee (for Americans) and appears to have had his British wife, daughter and son in camp as well. Their names are not known and cannot find any internet and primary source references to either Bill or William Kiley.
I think the man is William (Bill) Charles Kailey. He left Standard Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd in the mid-1930s and took up an engineering and later a directorship role in Wallace Harper Co., the vehicle dealership firm.
Kailey appears to have remarried after his wife died on 12 February 1939. In 1942, Kailey then 62 years old elected to remain with his wife, Mary in Stanley Camp and forego repatriation. Mary had three grown-up children from a previous marriage, a son and daughter in camp as well as another son who had served with the HKVDC interned in Sham Shui Po Camp.
Source
1. HKGRO Juror Lists
2. Hong Kong Memory and Hong Kong Telegraph 13 February 1939 on Susan Kailey
3. Carl Smith Card for William C. Kailey
4. The book "The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-1945"
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Kiely or Kiley ???
A mystery. Not able to view the man's surname on the American List nor on the John Black's List of internees at Stanley Camp.
1. As indicated below, his surname could be Kiley:
a) 2 Jun 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp - In view of the coming repatriation and the fact that about 40 Americans are choosing to stay, new officers are elected: Chester Bennett becomes Chairman of the Council, Father Meyer Vice Chairman, Mr. Gregory, Secretary and Mr. Kiley, Treasurer.
b) 23 April 1943, The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury newspaper - ........certain reassuring facts have come to hand through different sources, indicating a slightly less rigid control of internees at Camp Stanley by the Japanese. A telegram has been received by the Red Cross, Washington from Father Twoley*, Maryknoll missionary, Hongkong. It came via Chungking. He gave news of ten Americans who refused repatriation in the Gripsholm, electing to stay in Hongkong: Bill Kiley, ex-Socony;
(* Father Twoley likely is Father John Joseph Toomey)
c) 10 Mar 1945, John Charter's wartime journal - Mr Kiley, the Chairman of the few remaining Americans in camp, paid a visit yesterday to Lt Hara and asked him when the American parcels were arriving in camp. Kiley spoke to us this morning while we were wood cutting and he said that Hara received him very cordially and said he was glad he had come.
2. Whereas Kiely appears below:
a) 30 Nov 1943, Report on Stanley Camp from M S Gripsholm Repatriates - Numbers. There are still over 2,500 internees, men, women and children, in Stanley camp. The majority is naturally British. Approximately twenty United States citizens remain. These include: Mr Kiely and wife; the latter is British; with daughter and son also British.
Not sure if Kiely in 2. is a typo. In any case, the man was a U. S. citizen who had forgone repatriation and remained in Stanley Camp. He was on the Internment Camp Committee (for Americans) and appears to have had his British wife, daughter and son in camp as well. Their names are not known and cannot find any internet and primary source references to either Bill or William Kiley.
William (Bill) Kailey
Neither Kiely nor Kiley.
I think the man is William (Bill) Charles Kailey. He left Standard Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd in the mid-1930s and took up an engineering and later a directorship role in Wallace Harper Co., the vehicle dealership firm.
Kailey appears to have remarried after his wife died on 12 February 1939. In 1942, Kailey then 62 years old elected to remain with his wife, Mary in Stanley Camp and forego repatriation. Mary had three grown-up children from a previous marriage, a son and daughter in camp as well as another son who had served with the HKVDC interned in Sham Shui Po Camp.
Source
1. HKGRO Juror Lists
2. Hong Kong Memory and Hong Kong Telegraph 13 February 1939 on Susan Kailey
3. Carl Smith Card for William C. Kailey
4. The book "The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-1945"
Thanks for tracking him down…
Thanks for tracking him down.
He was a long term resident of Hong Kong, as he first appears in the 1903 Jurors List: