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Kathleen Edmondston was the wife of David Charles Edmondston, Hong Kong manager of the HSBC. She lived in the Sun Wah Hotel for the first part of the occupation and was interned in Stanley along with her daughter Mary after her husband was arrested in May 1943. She survived the war to make an affidavit on his treatment to a War Crimes trial.
http://www.gritquoy.com/genealogy/familygroup.php?familyID=F7639&tree=001Master
Daisy Joyce came to Hong Kong in March 1940 as a biologist for the Education Department.
During the hostilities of December 1941 she was an auxillary nurse at the Emergency Hospital in La Salle College (Kowloon).
She was interned in Stanley and created a well-known visual record: the Day Joyce Sheet. This was an embroidered sheet, hidden between the rugs on her bed, which contained coded memorials of internee names and events.
Albert Henry Compton was made head of Sassoon's in 1918.
During the December 1941 hostilities he was in the siege of the Repulse Bay Hotel. He was interned in Stanley with his wife Mathilde.
http://www.boormanfamily.ca/genealogy/compton_edward_ca1530/rr01/rr01_079.htm#P865
William Hudson came to Hong Kong in 1925. He worked as a prison officer at Stanley Goal and during the December 1941 hostilities he fought in the Stanley Platoon.
After the surrender he was interned in Stanley Camp.
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http://blunderingblindlybackwards.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=bill+hudson
Hugo Eric Foy was an employee of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation who was first posted to the East in 1925.
He married Enid Joyce Lidderdale on September 8, 1936. The couple had four children, one of whom died in infancy, one of whom was born in 1939, another during the Japanese occupation, and the last in 1951.
Major-General Christopher Maltby commanded the troops in Hong Kong during the hostilities of December 1941.
He was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1911, served in WW1 and made General Officer Commanding British Troops in China in August 1941.
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Hilda Guy was a student of Botany and Education at Leeds University, where she met William Gawan Sewell. The couple married in 1922. They had three daughters and one son (their eldest daugter died aged 7).
The couple went to Chengdu in 1924 and for the next seventeen years William worked as both Quaker missionary and university lecturer. They were in Hong Kong on a temporary pass when the Japanese attacked. During the hostilities the family spent time with a group at the house of George and Helen Kenndy-Skipton.
A. L. Fisher came to Hong Kong in 1932 as Assistant Engineer in the Telephone Company. He married Kathleen Parsons while on home leave in 1938 and in November of that year the couple settled in Hong Kong. Their daughter Angela was born on January 11, 1940.
In the period before the war the employees of the Hong Kong Telephone Company were incorporated into Army Signals and became the Fortress Signals Company. Fisher held the rank of sergeant.
Margaret Watson, a graduate of the London School of Economics, came to Hong Kong in July 1939 to become the Colony's first Medical Social Worker.
She was a friend of Hilda Selwyn-Clarke, and, like her, one of Hong Kong's small group of British leftists. When Mrs Selwyn-Clarke and her daughter were sent to Stanley camp in May 1943, Watson moved to Bungalow D to share a small room with them.
Husband of Florence Maude Deacon
Father of Irene Maude Selina Braudé