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Mr Petro was a White Russian who had taken French Nationality. His wife, Barbara, was a friend of American writer Emily Hahn.
He was a supporter of the Free French. He joined the Volunteers on the penultimate day of the December 1941 hostilities, and was wounded in the leg. Later he escaped Hong Kong via Macau.
Source:
Emily Hahn, China to Me, 1987 ed., 257, 293, 368
Serge Peacock was a baker at Lane, Crawford's Stubbs Road Bakery in the period leading up to WW11. His father also worked there.
At some point before the war he took British nationality by naturalization and anglicised his name.
He baked bread during the hostilities, and after the surrender he was held in the Exchange Building and the French Hospital with the other bakers. He was sent to Stanley Camp on May 7, 1943, where he spent the rest of the war.
He is probably to be seen in the Edgar weddding photo of June 29, 1942:
Lila Melitza Nozadze was the daughter of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Imperial Russian Army. She was born on a train en route to Vladivostok as her mother and grandparents were fleeing Baku in 1917.
George Pio-Ulski's father was an officer in the Russian Navy who was listed as missing in action in 1917. The family fled Russia in the spring of 1924 because of their precarious position under the Bolsheviks - Mr. Pio-Ulski believed they were the last people to get exit visas.
Boris Pasco was a bookseller first at Brewer's and from 1935 at Harris's.
During the war he carried out illegal relief work with Kiyoshi Watanabe and Helen Ho. He was arrested in May, 1943 on suspicion of allowing his shop on Ice House Street to be used by the resistance but managed to convince his captors of his innocence and was soon released.
For more information see:
ARSENY JOSEPH SAVITSKY
Portrait Artist in Stanley Prison Camp
AJ Savitsky was an artist interned in the Stanley Prison Camp during World War II, when the Japanese occupied Hong Kong, He was a Russian who had migrated to Hong Kong in the early 1930s and became a member of the Hong Kong Police Reserve in 1936. He was interned with other civilians, including police officers.
