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Known as J. Arthur Duff or Arthur Duff. His papers and documents reside at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt258032d8/entire_text/

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

Dates from 'In The Web'.

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.

He is mentioned in the 1940 Jurors List:

Then in the 1942 lists for POWs and wounded:

Advertising representative of the Newspaper Enterprise Limited in pre-WWII Hong Kong