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Mary Etta WHITNEY [1910-????]

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Mary Etta Whitney aka Etta Whitney was a missionary and pastor and served the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. She came to South China and Hong Kong in 1940 and supported the Rev. John Bechtel 

Etta Whitney was interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942. After repatriation, she went on speaking tours describing her time during the Japanese occupation.

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Henry Randall WHITE [1926-2006]

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At the fall of Hong Kong, Henry Randall White was a schoolboy studying at Diocesan Boys' School . He was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942. His parents are not known.

(On the Gripsholm passenger list, a line had been drawn through his name and his details had been transferred to another sheet.)

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1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10084-white-henry/

Adelaide VAN DE VEERE (née LAMB, aka Bobby) [1893-1973]

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Mrs. Adelaide Van de Veere, formerly a resident of Shanghai arrived in Hong Kong in November 1937. In Prisoner of the Japs, Gwen Dew described Adelaide Van de Veere (aka Bobby) as a "clever saleslady". The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury mentioned that she formerly worked at the Sea Captain's Shop (location not given).

Whilst in Hong Kong, she qualified to be an ANS Nurse. Hong Kong Daily Press 30 October 1940 refers.

Jack Aitchison THOMAS [1903-????]

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Jack Aitchison Thomas appears in the 1941 Jurors List as a police guard (watchman) employed by Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.

He was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.