Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Sally Refo was a Presbyterian missionary and teacher.

She was interned in Stanley and repatriated on the Asama Maru/Gripsholm with her husband Henry and four children.

Joyce Bassett was a Government secretary during the December 1941 hostiities.

Interned at Stanley.

Source:

http://gwulo.com/node/13016

Mrs Duckworth was the wife of the superintendent of North Point Power Station. She was present at the siege of the power station during the December 1941 hostilities.

Interned at Stanley.

Sources:

http://gwulo.com/node/13015

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367487

Joan Crawford was the daughter of the superintendent of North Point Power Station. She was present at the siege of the station during the December 1941 hostilities and helped treat the wounded.

Sources:

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367487

http://gwulo.com/node/13015

Note:

Date of birth & initial from John Black's list, which gives Mr McDermott's occupation in 1941 as "Photographer", and also has a note "Irish".

He isn't listed in the 1939 Blue Book or the 1941 Jurors List.

Wife of Herbert H Pommerenke.

Date of birth from the Biographical History at the Finding Aid to the Pommerenke family papers, online at:

http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/findingaids/fa.cfm?record_id=1…

She gives a brief description of her experiences in Hong Kong on page four of the Perry Herald, Perry, NY on 13 Jan 1943:

A Presbyterian Missionary, he was caught in Hong Kong in 1941 when the Japanese refused permission for him to return to the mission in Hainan:

Date of birth from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Carruthers's occupation in 1941 as "Aux Nursing Service".

Eric MacNider's diary mentions she was "former Matron of War Mem Nursing Home".

Mrs L. N. Winfield was the manageress of the Caravan Shop. She was the sister of Aileen and Doris Woods.

Source:

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html