Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
Barbara Anslow mentions Mrs Simmons in her diary entry for 17 Nov 1942:
There was a theft yesterday in Block 2 - Mrs E. Tollan and Mrs Simmons lost 25,000 prewar HK dollars' worth of jewellery.
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Gladys was on her own in…
Gladys was on her own in Stanley - her husband, Ben, was imprisoned separately, as he was part of the HKVDF and fought in the defence of Hong Kong. Before the fall of HK, she herself was involved in one of the nursing services; we have photos of her in her uniform, though I don't know which group she belonged to.
Ben and Gladys were close and long-standing friends of my grandparents, Robert and Agnes Taylor. They remained in HK after the war, though since they appear as guests in pictures of some of our family's weddings, I assume that they returned permanently to the UK in the 1950s.