In 1941 Grace Ellis was the proprietress of the Chantecler Restaurant on G/F, 172-176 Nathan Road.
Grace Ellis came from a large family. Together with her sisters, Leontine and Sophie, they enlisted in the HKVDC, Nursing Detachment. After the fall of Hong Kong, the sisters and their brother, Frederick Ellis were interned at Stanley Camp.
Grace and members of the Ellis family were repatriated to England after the Japanese surrender. Grace and Sophie returned to Hong Kong in 1947.
Leontine and Grace Ellis' initials and surname, "L & G Ellis" appear under "VADs/Nurses" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30083388. An explanation of the "Day Joyce Sheet" is given at: https://gwulo.com/media/46458
Note (1) Jewish Historical Society (JHS) gave DoB 12 December 1895. Ancestry gave birth year as 1893. The latter birth year seems more reasonable as her brother, Felix Maurice Ellis was also born in 1895.
Source
- https://battleforhongkong.blogspot.com/2014/04/mount-davis-hong-kong-rsm-ford-who.html
- JHS: https://jhshk.org/community/the-jewish-cemetery/burial-list/ellis-ezekiel-isaac/ and https://jhshk.org/community/the-jewish-cemetery/jews-who-died-in-the-defence-of-hong-kong/ellis-leontine/
- 1941 Licensing Sessions: /https://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/G1941/311035.pdf
- Carl Smith Archive: https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarl.xhtml?q=ellis&rpp=10
- Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/ezekiel-isaac-ellis-24-c2zdng?geo_a=r&o_iid=41015&o_lid=41015&o_sch=Web+Property