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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.

Hermann Balean was a doctor and surgeon who practised first in China and then Hong Kong.

Alexander Charles Meredith was a banker. On July 24, 1941 he was made Controller of Food.

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_Joyce_Sheet

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