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In 1913 he joined the Chinese Maritime Customs, a service he remained with until the war.

During the December 1941 hostilities he was a volunteer driver taking first aid to both civilians and military. After the surrender, he continued as a driver for the uninterned medical and health workers so was never in Stanley.

He was repatriated on the Asama Maru/Gripsholm and resumed his work for the Chinese Nationalist authorities in Washington, D. C.

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Lewis Charles Arlington was an American author of a number of books about China, where he lived for almost seventy years.

He was in Hong Kong during the December 1941 hostilities, and at Repulse Bay Hotel during the siege and during the early stages of his captivity became very weak - he was 83 years old - so was never sent to Stanley, He was sent to the French Hospital in early 1942 and that's probably where he died.

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Charles Winter was a Seventh Day Adventist missionary and teacher who, at the time of of the Japanese attack in December 1941 worked at, and perhaps ran, a school in the Clearwater Bay area.

He became a volunteer driver for the Medical Department during the fighting, and continued in this role after the surrender, living in the French Hospital as one of the health workers in Selwyn-Clarke's 'team'. He was repatriated on the Asama Maru in late June 1942.

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Gwen Dew was an American journalist. In 1936 she began travelling the world, mainly Asia, and writing a popular weekly column about her advenures. She took many photos of the December 1941 hostilities almost all of which have been lost.

She was interned in Stanley after the surrender and repatriated in late June 1942.

In 1948 she married Captain James Buchanan who died five years later.

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7099766

California resident Norman Briggs was sent to Hong Kong by Standard Oil in August 1941.

During the December fighting he volunteered to work for Food Control. After the surrender he was interned in Stanley until the reaptriation of late JUne 1942.

Soon after being reunited his family he wrote a wartime memoir which was published posthumously in 2006 - Taken in Hong Kong. This provides a detailed and balanced account of the American experience of internment.

Rose Etta Femmer married the Reverend Albert Kato Reiton in January 1913 in the United States. The couple came to Hong Kong that March to work as evangelists. In November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Misson in Kowloon.

She was in Kowloon with her family during the 1941 hostilities. After a period spent in hiding the were interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated in late June 1942.

She died in Hong Kong in 1957.

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The Reverend Albert Kato Reiton was an American Protestant missionary.

He married Edna Greer Reiton on November 15, 1909 and the next month they founded the South China Peniel Holiness Mission in Hong Kong. Edna Greer died in Kobe en route to the USA for medical treatment in January 1912 and in January 1913 Reiton married Rose Etta Femmer. The couple returned to Hong Kong in March to work as evangelists. In November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Misson in Kowloon.

Wenzell Brown was a lecturer at Lingnan University. He was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated with his fellow Americans on June 29/30, 1942.

He wrote a book, Hong Kong Aftermath (1943), which contains a partly fictionalised account of his experiences.

He became a writer of 'pulp fiction', gaining some reputation in the 1950s for his work in the 'juvenile delinquent' genre, and  publishing his only Science Fiction novel in 1975.

He was a Quaker.

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He was one of the bankers who was kept out of Stanley Camp by the Japanese. He escaped from Hong Kong in October 1942, in an operation arranged by the BAAG.

Wife of Frederick Cyril Grant.