Everything tagged: Hong Kong

John Oram Sheppard was a Warrant Officer in the Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

He died of dysentery in February 1942 - the second death in Stanley.

Source:

http://www.geni.com/people/John-ORAM-Sheppard/6000000014690930625

Victor Vander Needa was a well-known jockey and businessman before the war. 

During or soon after the occupation he married Janet Broadbridge (his second wife).

Source for date of birth: http://www.geni.com/people/Victor-Vander-Needa/6000000014425760529

Joan Crawford was the daughter of the superintendent of North Point Power Station. She was present at the siege of the station during the December 1941 hostilities and helped treat the wounded.

Sources:

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367487

http://gwulo.com/node/13015

Note:

Dr Frederick Bunje came from a well-establised Hong Kong family.

He was registered as qualified to practise medicine in Hong Kong in 1927.

He was appointed  Major in the Field Ambulance Unit of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps in 1941.

Son of John Olson 2 and Annie Louisa Moore Burke.

For more details see: http://www.thehongkonglegacy.com/The_Family_Tree.html

Barbara Merchant:

Edith May Peveril Guest  nee Fincher (sister of Teddy Fincher). Known as May. dob - dod according to Peter Hall (p.148) are 1903-1990. Married to Albert Edward Peveril Guest. Mother of Eric and Joyce, mentioned in the Diary, and others. I have made reasonable attempts at contacting the family in Australia to ask permission to use their names, but not having had a response, I have added them to the notes.

The younger daughter of Albert Kato Reiton and his second wife Rose Etta.

She was in Kowloon with her parents and her sister's family (the Hammonds) during the 1941 hostilities and was interned in Stanley until the repatriation of late June 1942.

Source:

Robert Hammond, Bondservants of the Japanese (1942), 1957 ed., 15