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Alice Lauretta HALL [c.1881-????]

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Alice Lauretta Hall and her husband, Charles Mylius Hall were the proprietors of an oriental goods, art and curios shop called "The Caravan" in the Peninsula and Gloucester Hotels. 

After the fall of Hong Kong, they were interned in Stanley Camp and later repatriated on the Teia Maru/Gripsholm in September 1943. 

 

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Charles Mylius HALL [c.1881-????]

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Charles Mylius Hall was a merchant who owned an oriental goods, art and curios shop called "The Caravan" in the Peninsula and Gloucester Hotels. His wife, Alice Lauretta Hall was also the proprietor.

After the fall of Hong Kong, they were interned in Stanley Camp and later repatriated on the Teia Maru/Gripsholm in September 1943. 

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Harry Albert GREENWOOD [c.1916-????]

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Harry Albert Greenwood was a ship's officer of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company (Jardines). 

He appears to have been captured in Hong Kong. He was initially interned at Stanley Camp but later transferred to Shanghai for internment in January 1943. 

Harry Greenwood was repatriated from Shanghai on the Teia Maru/Gripsholm in September 1943 as part of the Canadian group of returnees. After repatriation, he rejoined Jardines in Bombay, India in 1944.

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Helen Elsie COLEMAN (née MARSH) [c.1910-????]

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Little is known of Helen Elsie Coleman, a nursing sister.

Helen and her husband, Archibald Bryan Mcdonald Coleman appear to have arrived in Hong Kong in 1940. He was a refrigeration engineer with Dairy Farm.

After the fall of Hong Kong, they were both interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated in 1943 as part of the Canadian contingent on the Teia Maru/Gripsholm.

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Archibald Bryan Mcdonald COLEMAN [c.1911-????]

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Archibald Bryan Mcdonald Coleman appears to have arrived in Hong Kong around 1940. He was a refrigeration engineer employed by Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd., at East Point, Causeway Bay.

He was married to Helen Elsie Marsh Coleman, a nursing sister.

After the fall of Hong Kong, Archibald Coleman and his wife were interned at Stanley Camp. As they were both Canadian nationals, permission was granted by the Japanese authorities for them to be repatriated on the Teia Maru/Gripsholm. They left Stanley Camp in September 1943.

Audrey Josephine CAMIDGE (née HOWE) [1898-1963]

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Audrey Josephine Howe married Reginald Albert Camidge of the Chartered Bank at St. John's Cathedral on 10 December 1924.

After the fall of Hong Kong, the bankers and their spouses were initially accommodated at the Sun Wah Hotel. They were moved to Stanley Camp in May/June 1943 and billeted in Bungalow 'E'.

As Audrey Camidge was a Canadian national, permission was granted by the Japanese authorities for her to be repatriated on Teia Maru/Gripsholm. She left Stanley Camp in September 1943.

Frank Herbert BOWREY [c.1886-1953]

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Frank Herbert Bowrey does not appear on the Jurors List. However, his name surfaces in the local newspapers around 1937. He was an accountant and a member of the Key-Posts group in the Hong Kong Defence Reserve.

During the Japanese occupation, he was interned at Stanley Camp. In 1943, permission was given by the Japanese authorities for him to be repatriated to Canada.  He travelled on the Teia Maru/Gripsholm and arrived in Canada in December 1943.

Sheila Mary BASKETT [c.1916-2006]

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Sheila Mary Baskett was born in Victoria, B. C., Canada in 1916. When she was four, she moved to England. 

She arrived in Hong Kong around 1933 and later found a secretarial post at the Asiatic Petroleum Co. Ltd.. Her father, Paul Evelyn Baskett was working in Hong Kong at the time.