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Chief Engineer aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941. Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941. Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp. Died on February 17 or 18, 1945, and buried in Bowen Cemetery, Hong Kong. Jewish, from San Francisco, three siblings.
Radioman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941. Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941. Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp. Liberated September 1945. Prewar, he was unmarried and from Los Angeles.
Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941. Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941. Interned at Stanley. Repatriated in August 1942.
Steward or "2nd cook" aboard the Admiral Y.S.
Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941. Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941. Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen. Repatriated in August 1942.
Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941. Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941. Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen. Repatriated in August 1942. From Omaha, NB.
Shipping executive for American Trading Company, the American firm that owned the freighter Admiral Y.S. Williams, which was captured in drydock along with its all-American crew in December 1941 in Hong Kong. A U.S.
The actual first name of Sonny Boy was not recorded by the Olson cousins, to whom he was most closely related. He was the son of David Hay Ritchie and of Ellen (Nellie) Ritchie, youngest daughter of the retired Swedish tavern owner, John Olson snr and his Chinese wife, Ching Ah Fung (later Ellen Olson). Sonny Boy was youngest grandchild of the elder Olsons. Sonny Boy appears in Hong Kong family photos that show John Olson snr with all his grandsons. The above photo shows him as a baby.
I have deleted my original post about Nellie Olson's first husband, pictured here, as the family was given a false name for him. Nellie's husband was in fact David Hay Ritchie. They married in Manila where Nellie was working in 1914. I will add more in due course.
The marriage did not last. David Ritchie married a second time to Mary Thelma Adams in the U.S.