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James Percival Whitham appears in the 1941 Jurors List as Acting Branch Manager of Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada. He married Beatrice Lenora Brouwer and they later had a baby boy, Jonathan G. Whitham (1941-1944) born on 30 November 1941 at Matilda Hospital.

During the Battle of Hong Kong, Whitham was a member of the HKVDC and had been transferred to the Middlesex Company on 17 December 1941 as a lieutenant. He was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941.

Emily Stevenson was the mother of Donald R. Stevenson. 

Both mother and son were interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated in 1942.

A schoolboy at Diocesan Boys' School. Aged 7  in 1942. He and his mother were interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942.

Obituary/Memorial: https://www.bishophastingsfh.com/obituaries/Donald-R-Stevenson-Jr?obId=26303672

1. http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367492

William Tillinghast (spelt Tellinghast in the Jurors List) Stanton appears in the 1941 Jurors List as an exchange broker. 

He was interned with his wife at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.

1. The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45 by Phillip Cracknell. See here

Mary Cain was better known as Sister Mary de Ricci. She served the Maryknoll Sisters and was sent to Hong Kong in 1927. Prior to the Pacific war, Sister Mary de Ricci worked at Maryknoll Convent School in Kowloon and Holy Spirit School on Caine Road. She later became House Superior of Holy Spirit School.

Alice Elizabeth Manning was better known as Sister Santa Maria. She served the Maryknoll Sisters and was assigned to Hong Kong in 1931. From 1932 to 1937, she taught at Holy Sprit School and thereafter at Maryknoll Convent School in Kowloon Tong.

After the fall of Hong Kong, she was residing at Maryknoll Convent School. On 8 February 1942, eighteen Sisters of the school including Sister Santa Maria were interned at Stanley Camp. 

She was released from camp in June 1942 and repatriated to the United States. 

Founder of the H.Y. Louie Company Limited (distributor to IGA stores in British Columbia, Canada)

Source:

https://businesslaureatesbc.jabc.ca/laureate/hok-yat-louie/

https://www.singtao.ca/5317551/?variant=zh-hk

Nadeshda Richmond was of Russian descent and wife of John Fletcher Richmond. Her maiden name may have been 'Kupriyanovna'. She was interned with her husband at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.

In the 1941 Jurors List, Francis Neville Merritt Jr. worked as a "pupil" in the British Cigarette Co,. Ltd, (likely the British American Tobacco (BAT) Co., (China) Ltd.). His father by the same name worked as manager of BAT.

He and his father were interned at Stanley Camp. They were repatriated to the Unites States in 1942. Upon return, Francis Neville Merritt Jr. joined the Air Force.

Source: The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury

Buried in the Hong Kong Cemetery: