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Dorothy BRAZIER [c.1889-1950]

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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.

Kathleen Helen EDMONDSTON (née TOPE) [1887-????]

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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 Mary JOYCE (née SAGE, aka Day) [1905-1975]

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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