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Attorney

Legal documents from Deacons available here

John William Russell, engineer, is given in the Jurors List of 1937 as working for CE Warren & Co. Ltd. This is the only Jurors List in which he is named and I haven't found him in earlier staff lists of CE Warren & Co. Ltd., not that I've been able to check them all. His address in 1937 is 11 Bayview Mansions, Causeway Bay. His will is recorded by Carl Smith. I don't know if this is the same John Russell whose grave is listed as 12A/04/17 in Patricia Lim's data base as having died aged 77 in 1959 and who is buried with his wife Helen. Her 1937 grave bears the CEW & Co.

Patricia was the daughter of Russian-born bookseller Boris Pasco. Her father was drawn into relief work by Kiyoshi Watanabe, and she soon joined him. The Canadians in Bowen Road Hospital, where Watanabe was assigned at that time, were having a particularly tough time because they'd only been in Hong Kong for three weeks before the attack and had no friendly local contacts to help and comfort them. Ms.

Sir John Bowring was the fourth Governor of Hong Kong (1854-1859).

Husband of Veronica Bland née Walker, father of Siobhan, Diarmuid, and Clodagh

1941 Art student at the Ruskin School, Oxford

1941-46 War service with the Royal Navy; demobilised with the rank of Lieutenant

1946 Lived in Bali

1946-48 Service with the Chinese Maritime Customs

1948 Settled in Hong Kong, and joined the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company

1949 Married Veronica Walker of Hong Kong

1958 First met Zao Wou-ki

Geoffrey Wilson joined the Hong Kong Police in 1933. In 1936 he married Joy Noel Harris-Walker.

He was chosen to be part of 'Z' Force, a special operations unit which would work behind Japanese lines after an attack, but had to withdraw after it became clear this was incompatible with police duties during an invasion.

He was interned in Stanley, and in 1943 was involved with communicating with the British Army Aid Group in the organisation of an escape which never took place.

Dorothy Brazier was a tailoress by profession and a member of the Salvation Army who rose to the rank of Major.

In 1934 she came to Hong Kong to take charge of a home for girls in Embankment Road. She was allowed to remain uninterned during the Japanese occupation and looked after about 80 girls.

She was repatriated to Britain at the end of the war. She wanted to return to Hong Kong but was forbidden to do so because of her poor health.

Eilleen Randall retired to the South East of England with her husband Herbert some time after WW11.

Awarded George Cross posthumously and also holder of Air Force Medal

Wife of Vernon Walker, mother of Veronica.

Met Vernon during World War I

On the 18th of February, 1922 married Vernon Walker at St. John's Cathedral.

On 30th of October 1927 daughter Veronica born at French Hospital.