The Supplement to the London Gazette, 13 June 1946 records the award of her M.B.E.:
Miss Dorothy Phyllis GEEN, Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, Hong Kong Government Medical Department. For services during internment.
Her husband was C R Lee.
She accompanied the Japanese when they made their first "Peace Mission" from Kowloon to Hong Kong on the 13th Dec 1941, requesting the British surrender.
In Dec 1941 he was the Governor's Private Secretary.
Date of birth from comment below (John Black's list gives DoB as 1891).
Brian Edgar writes:
Allman was an American lawyer from Shanghai stuck in HK during the attack. After the repatriation he became head if the Far Eastern Bureau of the OSS (Don's dad's boss?) and later worked for the CIA.
DoB from John Black's list, which gives Wittenbach's occupation in 1941 as "Clergyman".
Gwen Dew was an American journalist. In 1936 she began travelling the world, mainly Asia, and writing a popular weekly column about her advenures. She took many photos of the December 1941 hostilities almost all of which have been lost.
She was interned in Stanley after the surrender and repatriated in late June 1942.
In 1948 she married Captain James Buchanan who died five years later.
Source:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7099766
Hilda Guy was a student of Botany and Education at Leeds University, where she met William Gawan Sewell. The couple married in 1922. They had three daughters and one son (their eldest daugter died aged 7).
The couple went to Chengdu in 1924 and for the next seventeen years William worked as both Quaker missionary and university lecturer. They were in Hong Kong on a temporary pass when the Japanese attacked. During the hostilities the family spent time with a group at the house of George and Helen Kenndy-Skipton.
