Dr. Allston Gourdin was a medical doctor born in Hong Kong. He came from a large prominent family headed by his father, Allston O'Driscoll Gourdin As his father was born in the United States, Dr. Gourdin was a U. S. citizen and thus was interned at Stanley Camp.
In Stanley Camp, Gwen Dew in the Prisoner of the Japs writes: "Dr. Allston Gourdin, an American, was another who gave almost his entire time to keeping the Americans as well as possible. There were always dysentery, malnutrition, cuts, burns, boils, and other sicknesses with which to deal, as well as the attendant ills of our almost purely starch diet."
Together with his wife, Dr. Gourdin was repatriated to the United States in 1942.
Source: Carl Smith Card No. 103961 on Allston Gourdin