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John Andrew JACKSON [c.1888-1942]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Sun, 12/31/2023 - 20:45

Steward in the galley of the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Served as a volunteer truck driver during battle for Hong Kong.  Killed by sniper fire or machine-gun fire while trucking cargo on December 25, 1941.  From Los Angeles/San Pedro, California.

Thorwald HANSEN (aka Carl) [1897-1945]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 12/23/2023 - 02:10

Able-Bodied 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.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  From San Francisco. 

Harry GOLDMAN [c.1875-1945]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 12/21/2023 - 01:21

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.

Paul W. DAVIS [????-1944]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 21:12

Oiler in the engine room of 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.  From Los Angeles.  Postwar, buried in Honolulu National Cemetery.

Harold CHRISTENSEN [????-1942]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Sun, 12/17/2023 - 22:54

Oiler in the engine room of 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 of heart failure, with malnutrition and dysentery likely contributing factors. 

Sally Aspinell NOAD (née GABY) [1935-2007]

Submitted by jill on Fri, 10/06/2023 - 20:03

Sally Gaby was born to Iris and Cyril Gaby in Shanghai in 1935. She was brought up with her cousin, Daphne Cook, daughter of Iris's sister Marjorie and whom the Gabys had agreed to adopt. The family were a part of a swap with Japanese POWs in Australia, where they then settled. Sally was one of the great-grandchildren of the Swedish tavern owner John Olson and grandchild of Charles and Elizabeth Warnes. Both Iris and Marjorie had been brought up and educated at the Canossian Convent after the death of their parents.

Lionel Arthur DABELSTEIN [1902-1982]

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 09/21/2023 - 11:20

He is mentioned in the 1940 Jurors List:

c   Dabelstein, Lionel Arthur Factory Manager, Organic Fertilizer Co., Ld. Fanling.

Then in the 1942 lists for POWs and wounded:

Robert Leslie BAULD (aka Les) [1926-1985]

Submitted by Beryl Bauld on Wed, 07/12/2023 - 20:04

Leslie Bauld worked for HATS (Hongkong Air Terminal Services).

He was born in Shanghai 12 July 1926, second son of John (Jack) Bauld and Wilfreda (Freda) Barkus.  (She was the daughter of Captain Robert Barkus) The family moved to NSW Australia after the war and are buried in Woronora Cemetery, Sutherland.

Leslie died at Sydney airport from a heart attack in 1985.

Capt. Barkus died in Tientsin.

They were in Lunghwha Camp as POW's.

Brother Dennis and sister Doreen (Bamforth).