Chaloner Grenville Alabaster KC (1880 -1958) was the Attorney General of Hong Kong from 1930 to 1946. He was interned in the Stanley Prisoner of war camp for the duration of the war.
He was the son of Chaloner Grenville Alabaster a British China Consular Official and had been born in Hankow.
"On the 3rd (3 June 1942), I was invited to sign my name on a linen sheet full of signatures which was to be taken home by some of the Americans who had undertaken to embroider over each signature."
(Not sure if the diary entry above is with reference to Olga Franklin's embroidery or to the Day Joyce sheet ?)
Source: Page 128 of Chaloner Grenville Alabaster's book "More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment - A Personal Narrative." See here
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C Grenville Alabaster
Chaloner Grenville Alabaster KC (1880 -1958) was the Attorney General of Hong Kong from 1930 to 1946. He was interned in the Stanley Prisoner of war camp for the duration of the war.
He was the son of Chaloner Grenville Alabaster a British China Consular Official and had been born in Hankow.
More details are on his Wikipedia entry.
Alabaster at Kwanti Races
Here is a photo of Alabaster at the Kwanti Races in 1934 with the Governer Sir William Peel. Alabaster is standing with his face to the camera.
Portrait
Here is a formal photo of Alabaster (from the China Mail 10 July 1926)
The Day Joyce Sheet
Alabaster's Signature
"On the 3rd (3 June 1942), I was invited to sign my name on a linen sheet full of signatures which was to be taken home by some of the Americans who had undertaken to embroider over each signature."
(Not sure if the diary entry above is with reference to Olga Franklin's embroidery or to the Day Joyce sheet ?)
Source: Page 128 of Chaloner Grenville Alabaster's book "More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment - A Personal Narrative." See here