Everything tagged: Nurse

Evelyn Paterson was a Red Cross volunteer during WW1 and went on to become a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital. It is not yet known how she met her future husband, Harry Hewett, whose parents had lived in China and who went on to have a career in the Far East himself. Both Evelyn's parents are recorded as having "private means". They lived in  Ilford, Essex. Evelyn travelled to Hong Kong in 1925, where she married Harry. They lived at 18 Broadwood Road, (albeit with trips back to England), until Evelyn and her daughter, Shirley Ann were evacuated to Australia before WW2.

Janet Morren (misspelt as Morran on the John Black's List) was a trained nurse. She was stationed at La Salle Relief Hospital during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

Her name/signature appears under "La Salle College" (La Salle Relief Hospital) on the left on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Mary Dorothy Kavarana was registered as a nurse on 21 March 1936.

In an announcement of forthcoming marriage in the Sunday Herald on 9 May 1937, Mr. Andre Lock was to be her future husband.

During the Battle of Hong Kong, she worked in La Salle Relief Hospital.

Source

1. 1941 Roll of Female Nurses (double click)

2. M. D. Kavarana's name/signature appears under "La Salle College" (La Salle Relief Hospital) on the right on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Jean M. Barr was an American missionary and a registered nurse serving the leper colony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Loting, Kwangtung (Luoding, Guangdong), China.

During the Battle of Hong Kong, she was stationed at La Salle Relief Hospital. After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated with other Americans in 1942. In 1955, she married Wilber Raymond McWhinney. Jean M. Barr died in 1982.

Jeannie trained as a nurse at Perth Royal Infirmary before going to Hong Kong in 1938 (approx).  She was interned in Stanley Civilian Camp following the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941.  Her fiance, Fred Woodhead was interned as a POW in Sham Shui Po before being transported on the Lisbon Maru to Ossaka #1 Camp.  After the war ended Jeannie and Fred returned to Dundee and were married 3 weeks later.  Fred returned to Hong Kong and Jeannie joined him after the birth of their son in 1947.  Jeannie & Fred emigrated from the UK to Australia in late 1950, where they remained until at leas