List of Canadian pax from Stanley Camp on the Gripsholm voyage from Goa to NYC 1943

Thanks for sharing this, I haven't seen a copy of it before. Here is a copy of the list of names in text format for easy reading:

Mr. George Andrew

Miss Sheila Baskett

Mr. Frank Bowery

Mr. William Buchanan

Mrs. Audrey Camidge

Miss Kathleen Christie

Mr. Maurice Cohen

Mr. & Mrs. Archibald Coleman

Miss Gladys Collard

Mr. George Costello

Mr. Percy Cox

Mrs. W. R. Dockrill

Mrs. Frances Dodds

Miss Nell Elliott

Mrs. Mary Fairburn

Mr. David Fyffe

Dr. & Mrs. Greaves

Mr. Harry Greenwood

Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Hall

Mr. Malcolm Hardie

Mrs. Sarah Logan

Mrs. Ursula Macklin & child

Mr. & Mrs. David Mann

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Medley

Mr. Richard Morris

Mr. Harrison Mullett

Father Charles Murphy (Chairman)

Mrs. Florence Needham

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Oppen

Mrs. Florence Randle

Mr. & Mrs. Don Robbins & child

Mr. & Mrs. J. F. Robinson

Mr. James Ryan

Saint Antoine, Sister

Saint George, Sister

Saint Philippe, Sister

Saint Etienne, Sister

Mr. & Mrs. Salmon

Miss Sylvia Salmon

Miss Frieda Salmon

Miss Hilda Salmon (Secretary)

Miss Dorothy Salmon

Mr. Samuel Salmon

Mr. Herbert Salmon

Mr. Charles Skeet

Mrs. Nina Smith

Mr. John Spence

Miss Winifred Stokes

Miss Anna Waters

Miss Henrietta Wilson

Mr. Elihu Wood

Miss Elizabeth MacGowan

Mr. John MacGowan

Antonio Gonzales

Cristobal Gonzales

Nora Gonzales

Mr. & Mrs. Franck Benoist & 3 children

Miss Lily Chow

Miss Mary Chow

Mr. & Mrs. H. F. Collier

Miss Rachel Finlayson

Mrs. Eugenie Zaitzeff & child

Winnie & Myra Brown

Mr. Eldred Bush

Rosy Bush

Katherine Bush

Lillian Bush

Chester Bush

Herbert Bush

Marjorie Bush

Franklin Bush

Phyllis Bush

Mr. Ernest Clarke

Miss Emily Hahn

Mrs. George Lenz

Miss Jane Lenz

Miss Josephine Lenz

Miss Catherine Lenz

Miss Magdalene Lenz

Mr. Theodore Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Francis Smith

Mr. Julio Swing

Patricia Swing

Magnolia Swing

Mr. Diego Swing

Mrs. Maria Velasco

Mr. Jesus Velasco

Miss Maria Velasco

Miss Marta Velasco

Master Gustavo Velasco

The Mr Maurice Cohen, whose name appears on the list above, is none other than the fabulous London-born, Canadian, Chinese general, Major-General Morris Abraham “Two-Gun” Cohen. 

See: 1943 – Maj.Gen. M.A. “Two Gun” Cohen striking a defiant pose on board the repatriation ship conveying him from the Stanley internment camp in H.K. to freedom in Canada..JPG | Gwulo

This is my grandfather. They lived in Los Angeles. 

Mr. Eldred Bush - grandfather

Rosy Jacobsen Bush - grandmother

Katherine Bush

Lillian Bush

Chester Bush

Herbert Bush

Marjorie Bush 

Franklin Bush

Phyllis Bush / Fierro - Mom and she is turning 89

Son missing from this list - Theodore

They had 2–3 other children deceased.

Thank you for identifying your family members. I had a look in the lists we have of internees at Stanley Camp, and can't see the Bush family mentioned. Please do you know where they were living before boarding the MS Gripsholm?

Regards, David

Brian Edgar has written a very good article “Condemned to be Free:” The Dilemmas of Canadian Civilians in Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong. See: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2076&context=cmh

Although the list in handwriting says "Canadians Only", the list of people shown also included U.S. nationals and individuals that had claimed U.S. citizenship through family, marriage etc.. The list also included individuals that were not interned in Stanley Camp.

With reference to Eldred Drummond Bush (1888-1965), he was the grandson of Frederick T. Bush (1815-1887, U.S. Consul in Hong Kong. His father, Frederick Deblois Bush (1843-1907), served as the US Vice-Consul in Hankou and the assistant of the American-owned Russell & Co. in Hong Kong. A crosslink to Eldred Bush via his brother, James Daniel Bush on facebook (set to Google Translate) showing the latter's family and business connections.

Further Reading:

1. Weston's China Trader: http://www.westonhistory.org/data/uploads/bulletin-excerpts/Frederick-Thomas-Bush-Fall-11-29.pdf

Frank Bowery should read as Frank Bowrey