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Faith Mary SNUGGS [1898-1990]

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Faith Mary Snuggs was a Baptist missionary teacher. She came from a missionary family and served in South China and Hong Kong. 

During the Battle of Hong Kong, she was stationed at La Salle Relief Hospital. After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

Faith M. Snuggs' name/signature appears under "La Salle College" (La Salle Relief Hospital) on the right on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Paulo da Gama Maria XAVIER [1899-1988]

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Paulo Xavier joined my grandfather's company, C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. as a clerk in about 1922 and was a  loyal member of the company until it was wound up in 1941. According to the last letter from Hong Kong written by my uncle, Leslie Warren, Xavier then got a wartime job as Accountant in the Government Food Controller's Office. He emigrated to the US in 1959. Information about him was kindly given to me by his grandson, Roy Eric Xavier who told me that Paulo was one of twelve siblings and that he lost his sister, Daria, in the Happy Valley Race Course fire of 1918.

Zygmund SOLDINSKI (aka Zed) [1902-1974]

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Chief Mechanic/Engineer and Director of Maintenance of Pan Am and CNAC in Hong Kong/China.

Soldinski and family departed Kai Tak on one of the last evacuation flights on 9/10 December 1941 before the airfield was sealed and made unavailable due to the Japanese invasion and bombardment of Hong Kong.

David Enoch MORKEN (aka Dave) [1910-2003]

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David Morken was born in 1910 in Minnesota, USA.  He was to be a Christian evangelist with a global ministry.  His family was of Norwegian descent.  In 1914 they moved to California.  Growing up his one ambition was to be a doctor, but he came to faith in his high school years and just wanted to serve God and preach the gospel.

Walter Wesselhoeft HOFFMANN [1897-1977]

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Walter Wesselhoeft Hoffmann was an American diplomat and served as Vice Consul in Hong Kong at the time of the Japanese invasion in December 1941. 

After the fall of Hong Kong, Hoffmann and the American delegation comprising 20 persons were divided equally and occupied two houses, which were near to one another on Mount Cameron. They stayed on Mount Cameron for two months before being transferred to Stanley Camp. Release from confinement came on 29 June 1942 for repatriation to the United States.