Everything tagged: WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/7957-fisher-george-ernest/

2. George Fisher's name/signature appears as a senior student under "School" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

List of Children in Stanley Camp here

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/9233-parker-robert-william/

2. Robert Parker's name/signature appears as a senior student under "School" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Mentioned in China Families as son of Hermione Katherine Wilson.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10168-wilson-paul-george/

2. Paul Wilson's name/signature appears as a senior student under "School" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Wilhelmina E Williamson was a missionary and teacher. Appears to have arrived in Hong Kong in the 1930s. She joined St. Stephen's Girl's College.

After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10153-williamson-wilhelmina-e/

Mary Noel Baxter was a missionary and teacher and joined St. Stephen's Girls' College in January 1929. In 1936 she was appointed as Warden of St Stephen's Hall at the University of Hong Kong. After internment in Stanley Camp, she returned to England.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/7247-baxter-mary-noel/

Dorothy Mary Shilston was a missionary and teacher. She arrived in Canton in 1929 and the following year was appointed teacher at Ying Wa Girls' School. 

After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp. Postwar, Dorothy Shilston acted in a temporary capacity as headmistress of Ying Wa Girls' School after its reopening in October 1945.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/9659-shilston-dorothy-mary/

Beatrice Mary Pope was a missionary and teacher. She arrived in Hong Kong in September 1924 and joined St. Stephen's Girls' College/Fairlea School. In 1937, she was transferred to the newly-built Heep Yun School in Kowloon as Warden or Deputy Principal.

Beatrice Pope was one of the three Christian missionaries that also founded the Hong Kong School for the Deaf in 1935.

After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

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Vera Silcocks arrived in Hong Kong in 1927. She was a missionary and teacher at Ying Wa Girls' School and became the School's headmistress in 1939. After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

She retired in 1967 after 40 years of service with the School. To celebrate the School's 105th anniversary in 2005, a DVD was released regarding her life and long service.

Sources

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/9669-silcocks-vera-dorothy-alexandra/

Irene May Blanchett was the daughter of Revd. Charles Isaac Blanchett and Ann (Annie) Walsh, C.M.S. missionaries based in South China. She was the younger sister to Hannah Gertrude Wittenbach (née Blanchett).

She was born about 1911/12 and appears to have been better known as Maysie Blanchett. 

Hannah Gertrude Blanchett married Rev. Henry August Wittenbach in Christ Church at Shameen on 10 April 1928. She was was the eldest daughter of Rev. Charles Isaac Blanchett and Annie Walsh of the Church Missionary Society based in Canton.