Rev. Clyde Henry Herndon was an American missionary. Herndon, his wife and young son left Vancouver in 1934 for China to work and serve in the Pentecostal Holiness Mission in Pakhoi (Beihai), Guangdong. Due to the Sino-Japanese hostilities, his wife and son left China in 1939.
On the day of the Japanese attack on Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, Rev. Herndon was residing at the Pentecostal Holiness missionary home in Kowloon. His story of the days and months ahead of internment in the Kowloon Hotel, Stanley Internment Camp and finally the voyage home to the United States is recalled in The International Pentecostal Holiness Church Advocate, 1 October 1942: https://pentecostalarchives.org/?a=d&d=IPHCA19421001-01.1.2&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN-clyde+herndon-----------
Rev. Herndon and his wife returned to Hong Kong in 1946.
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1. Consortium of Pentecostal Archives: https://pentecostalarchives.org/