Jacobus van der Laan was the manager of a bank the Netherlands Trading Society when war broke out.
After the surrender he was one of the bankers kept out of internment to liquidate the assets of their instutions. He and his wife lived at the Sun Wah Hotel until being sent to Stanley in July 1943 on the completion of their work.
Sources:
David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 313
Hermann Balean was a doctor and surgeon who practised first in China and then Hong Kong.
Alexander Charles Meredith was a banker. On July 24, 1941 he was made Controller of Food.
John Black's list notes he was a Policeman, born in 1896.
Mary Edmondston was the daughter of David and Kathleen Edmondston. She lived in the Sun Wah Hotel with her parents for the first part of the Japanese occupation and was sent to Stanley with her mother after her father's arrest in May 1943.
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Update:
New details kindly supplied by a family member.
Kathleen Edmondston was the wife of David Charles Edmondston, Hong Kong manager of the HSBC. She lived in the Sun Wah Hotel for the first part of the occupation and was interned in Stanley along with her daughter Mary after her husband was arrested in May 1943. She survived the war to make an affidavit on his treatment to a War Crimes trial.
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Jim Shepherd first came to Hong Kong in 1926 with his regiment. In 1928 he left the army and joined the Hong Kong Police.
He was interned in Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation.
In 1996 he published a short autobiography: Silks, Satins, Gold Braid and Monkey Jackets.
Daisy Joyce came to Hong Kong in March 1940 as a biologist for the Education Department.
During the hostilities of December 1941 she was an auxillary nurse at the Emergency Hospital in La Salle College (Kowloon).
She was interned in Stanley and created a well-known visual record: the Day Joyce Sheet. This was an embroidered sheet, hidden between the rugs on her bed, which contained coded memorials of internee names and events.
T. B. Wilson was head of the American President Lines Hong Kong office in 1941. One of the first indications that a Japanese attack was imminent came at about midnight on December 6 at a Grand Fancy Dress Party, held at the Peninsula Hotel in aid of the British and Chinese war funds, when Wilson announced that anyone connected with a ship in the harbour should report for duty at once.
He was interned in Stanley and repatriated on the Asama Maru/Gripsholm.
