Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Sylvia Annette Gates' father was a Presbyterian missionary in Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, the family was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.

William Edwards Gates' father was a Presbyterian missionary in Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong,  the family was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.

Memorial: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/canoga-park-ca/william-gates-10300310

Wife of  Presbyterian missionary, Milton Halsted Gates 

In 1941 and during the Battle of Hong Kong, they were expecting their third child. The family appear to have been residing at Cheung Chau at the time. Their new born son was welcomed on 15 December 1941 at Matilda Relief Hospital. 

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

Milton Halsted Gates was a Presbyterian missionary and better known as M Halsted Gates. In the late 1930s, Gates, his wife, Wanda and two children were residing in Dallas, Texas. Before relocating to South China in September 1940, Gates had been studying at the Dallas Theological Seminary. 

In 1941 and during the Battle of Hong Kong, Gates and his wife were expecting their third child. The family appear to have been residing at Cheung Chau at the time. Their new born son was welcomed on 15 December 1941 at Matilda Relief Hospital. 

Clarence C. Krohn was a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary and teacher. At the time of the Japanese invasion he taught in the China Training Institute in Clearwater Bay. He was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942.

Better known as Brother "Anthony" (or Antony) Kilbourn, FSC. He served the Brothers of the Christian Schools - La Salle (De La Salle Brothers) and arrived in Hong Kong on 25 September 1936. He had previously worked in the Philippine Islands until his transfer to Hong Kong.

Walter Frederick Ernst Frese was better known as Walter F. Frese. He was a certified public accountant and joined the U.S. Treasury Department in 1935.

In late 1941, Frese came to Hong Kong after an inspection visit made to China to examine the treasury stabilization funds that had been advanced by the U.S. government. He became trapped in Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion. Frese was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942.

Anna Edith Fredericks better known as Edith Fredericks was an American missionary who went to China in about 1916 serving the Methodist Episcopal Church in Kiukiang (Jiujiang) and Hong Kong.

Edith Fredericks was in Hong Kong during its capitulation in December 1941. She was interned and later repatriated to the United States in 1942. In 1944, Edith Fredericks was given public recognition for having worked for the Methodist Church in China for 38 years.

She returned to China in 1946.

Source

1, The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury.

Henry Sorg Frank better known as Henry S. Frank made his way to China in the 1920s and started off as a missionary teacher at Lingnan University in Canton (Guangzhou). He would spend the next 25 years at Lingnan rising up from lecturer to Professor and to the Head of the Chemistry Department and Provost. In 1951, he was the last member of the foreign staff to leave Lingnan University. He returned to the United States and soon joined the Board of Trustees of Lingnan University based in New York. 

Arthur M. Fifer was the Far Eastern Relief Representative of the American Red Cross and also an internee at Stanley. Before Fifer was repatriated, he devised a scheme for internees to get an outside loan so as to enable them to purchase  medicines, food and clothing from shops in the city as there was a scarcity of supplies delivered to internees. After Fifer had left Hong Kong, Red Cross relief activities were handed over to Father John Toomey.