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Guillaumine VAN DER LAAN (née EUGENE P. LE COCQ D ARMANDVILLE) [1904-2002]

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Guillaumine E. P. Le Cocq d'Armandville married Jacobus van der Laan on December 10, 1927 in Palembang, Sumatra.

During the first 18 months of the Japanese occupation she lived with him at the Sun Wah Hotel. The couple were sent to Stanley in July 1943.

She died in the Hague aged 97.

Source:

http://gw.geneanet.org/evanderlaan?lang=en;pz=esther;nz=van+der+laan;ocz=0;p=guillaumine+e.p.;n=le+cocq+d+armandville

Jacobus Hendrik VAN DER LAAN (aka Henk) [1900-1976]

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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

Kathleen Helen EDMONDSTON (née TOPE) [1887-????]

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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.

 

http://www.gritquoy.com/genealogy/familygroup.php?familyID=F7639&tree=001Master

George GERRARD [1894-1966]

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George Gerrard came to Hong Kong in 1914 to work for the Taikoo Dock Company.

He was interned in Stanley, where he acted as a Block Quartermaster. He was repatriated on a hospital ship having lost about ten stone in weight. He returned to work in Hong Kong, eventually retiring to Whitley Bay (now Tyne and Wear).