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Cassian BRIGANT (aka Brother Cassian) [1889-1957]

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Brother Cassian served the Brothers of the Christian Schools - La Salle (De La Salle Brothers). He taught at St. Joseph's College from 1921 before being transferred to the newly opened La Salle College in 1932 as second Principal. 

I think his name/signature appears  under "La Salle College" (La Salle Relief Hospital) on the left on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Faith Mary SNUGGS [1898-1990]

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Faith Mary Snuggs was a Baptist missionary teacher. She came from a missionary family and served in South China and Hong Kong. 

During the Battle of Hong Kong, she was stationed at La Salle Relief Hospital. After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

Faith M. Snuggs' name/signature appears under "La Salle College" (La Salle Relief Hospital) on the right on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Frederick Solomon CULLEN (aka Fred) [1889-1945]

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Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dockyard and resided on site.

He was a Private with the HKVDC during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. Corporal Fred Cullen died on 2 March 1945 and is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery.

Source

1. Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

Claude EARNSHAW [????-1930]

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Claude Earnshaw appears to have arrived in Hong Kong in 1920 with his brother Reginald. Both brothers joined the Hong Kong Police and later were involved with Harry Abbott in the "Abbott School of Aviation" at Kai Tak.

After Reginald's death in 1925, Claude Earnshaw later became manager of the Palace Hotel. He was a keen, sportsman, cyclist and billiards player. He met with a sudden death in 1930.

Further reading:  http://www.chingchic.com/the-harry-abbott-story.html

Reginald EARNSHAW [????-1925]

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Reginald Earnshaw appears to have arrived in Hong Kong in 1920 with his brother Claude. Both brothers joined the Hong Kong Police. Reginald left at the end of 1923 and became manager of the Kai Tack Motor Bus Company. He was a motor enthusiast and mechanic/engineer. Reginald and Claude were connected with Harry Abbott in the "Abbott School of Aviation" at Kai Tak.

Audrey Gladys DONNITHORNE [1922-2020]

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Audrey Donnithorne described herself as an Overseas Brit and a Sichuan country girl, but she was also a world-class scholar of the Chinese economy, with a talent for languages and connections, courageously fulfilling her vocation to improve the lives of others, and a heroine of the Catholic faith.