Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
Gwen Dew was an American journalist. In 1936 she began travelling the world, mainly Asia, and writing a popular weekly column about her advenures. She took many photos of the December 1941 hostilities almost all of which have been lost.
She was interned in Stanley after the surrender and repatriated in late June 1942.
In 1948 she married Captain James Buchanan who died five years later.
Source:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7099766
Note:
Her memoir Prisoner of the Japs (1943) is available free online:
Comments
War Film Confiscated
Upon Gwen Dew's arrival in Jersey City, New Jersey on the repatriation ship "Gripsholm".
"She was permitted to bring one camera home with her. She reported the Japanese had confiscated five of her cameras as well as 5,000 feet of motion picture film which she had taken of the fighting at Hong Kong."
Source: Evening Star newspaper, Washington D. C. on 27 August 1942 at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1942-08-27/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1942&sort=date&rows=20&words=Gripsholm&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=19&state=&date2=1945&proxtext=gripsholm&y=13&x=15&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=6