California resident Norman Briggs was sent to Hong Kong by Standard Oil in August 1941.
During the December fighting he volunteered to work for Food Control. After the surrender he was interned in Stanley until the reaptriation of late JUne 1942.
Soon after being reunited his family he wrote a wartime memoir which was published posthumously in 2006 - Taken in Hong Kong. This provides a detailed and balanced account of the American experience of internment.
The younger daughter of Albert Kato Reiton and his second wife Rose Etta.
She was in Kowloon with her parents and her sister's family (the Hammonds) during the 1941 hostilities and was interned in Stanley until the repatriation of late June 1942.
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Robert Hammond, Bondservants of the Japanese (1942), 1957 ed., 15
Rose Etta Femmer married the Reverend Albert Kato Reiton in January 1913 in the United States. The couple came to Hong Kong that March to work as evangelists. In November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Misson in Kowloon.
She was in Kowloon with her family during the 1941 hostilities. After a period spent in hiding the were interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated in late June 1942.
She died in Hong Kong in 1957.
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The Reverend Albert Kato Reiton was an American Protestant missionary.
He married Edna Greer Reiton on November 15, 1909 and the next month they founded the South China Peniel Holiness Mission in Hong Kong. Edna Greer died in Kobe en route to the USA for medical treatment in January 1912 and in January 1913 Reiton married Rose Etta Femmer. The couple returned to Hong Kong in March to work as evangelists. In November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Misson in Kowloon.
Edith Hammond was the daughter of missionary Bob Hammond and his wife Helen. She was ten and a half months old in January 1942 when she was interned in Stanley with her parents and grandparents. She was part of the Asama Maru/Gripsholm repatriation.
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Robert Hammond, Bondservants of the Japanese (1942), 1957 ed., 49
Helen Hammond was the daughter the Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Reiton who founded the China Peniel Mission. She married missionary Bob Hammond in 1939.
She went through the 1941 hostilities in Kowloon and was interned in Stanley with her husband, their daughter Edith, and her parents, until the American repatriation.
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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pasadenastarnews/obituary.aspx?pid=16048889
Robert Bruce Hammond was an American missionary with the China Peniel Mission, which was founded by his father-in-law the Rev. A. K. Reiton and is first wife. He went through the 1941 hostilities in Kowloon and was interned in Stanley with his wife, their daughter Edith, and the Reitons, until the American repatriation.
He wrote a memoir of his experience: Bondservants of the Japanese (1942)
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Margaret Watson, a graduate of the London School of Economics, came to Hong Kong in July 1939 to become the Colony's first Medical Social Worker.
She was a friend of Hilda Selwyn-Clarke, and, like her, one of Hong Kong's small group of British leftists. When Mrs Selwyn-Clarke and her daughter were sent to Stanley camp in May 1943, Watson moved to Bungalow D to share a small room with them.
Gwen Priestwood was supposed to be a nurse during the Japanese attack, but volunteered to drive a food supply lorry instead.
Soon after the surrender, she tried to escape with others but the plan came to nothing. She was interned in Stanley Camp with the rest of the Allied civilians, but on March 18, 1942 she began an escape with policeman W. P. Thompson. She carried with her to Chungking a complete list of British internees.
In 1944 she published an account of her experiences: Through Japanese Barbed-wire.
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Wenzell Brown was a lecturer at Lingnan University. He was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated with his fellow Americans on June 29/30, 1942.
He wrote a book, Hong Kong Aftermath (1943), which contains a partly fictionalised account of his experiences.
He became a writer of 'pulp fiction', gaining some reputation in the 1950s for his work in the 'juvenile delinquent' genre, and publishing his only Science Fiction novel in 1975.
He was a Quaker.
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