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John Bechtel was a missionary.

Philip Cracknell wrote:

George Baxter on Page 44 of Personal Experiences During the seige of HK - " On July 15th a baby boy was born to the wife of Dr Ward, a missionary family who had been at Stanley. of American captive parents , on a Jap ship in the Indian Ocean". [...]

I think the parents were Cecil Sylvester and Margaret G Ward.

Interned at Stanley together with her children Eunice, Doris, Laurence, Ruth, Theodore and Laura Lou. Her two eldest sons, Howard and Everett, were sent back to the States to continue their schooling and so they were not in China when the war broke out.