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.
George Mortimer ended the December 1941 hostilities working as a baker. He was held in the Exchange Building after the surrender, and then to the Mee Chow Hotel, and finally to Stanley, where he spent the rest of the war.
Sources:
https://jonmarkgreville2.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/g-w-mortimer/
Cuthbert James Norman was apointed Assistant Superintendent of Prisons with effect from January 10, 1941. During the December 1941 hostilities he commanded the Stanley Platoon (prison officers) which saw some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict.
He was interned in Stanley and after liberation wrote 'A Farewell to Stanley', perhaps the best-known poem of the Hong Kong war.
He became Commissioner of Prisons on February 26, 1953.
He was awarded the CBE.
Poem:
Date of birth from John Black's list.
Mathilde Compton was the second wife of A. H. Compton, the head of Sassoon's. They married in 1919. She was interned in Stanley.
http://www.boormanfamily.ca/genealogy/compton_edward_ca1530/rr01/rr01_079.htm#P865
American missionary and teacher. He, his wife Sally, and family were interned in Stanley and repatriated on the Asama Maru/Gripsholm.
Barbara Anslow's diary mentions "Edith Palmer from Shanghai", and John Black's list has a woman named "E G Palmer", so I've assumed they are the same person.
