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.
Margaret Hearson appears on Page 4 of the Civilian Internee List here as being in Stanley Camp.
She worked for the Education Department and was a teacher at Belilios Public School.
Sources
1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/8352-hearson-margaret/
2. Margaret Hearson's name/signature appears in red at bottom left of the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum.
Harry Louis Mather appears in the John Black's list of Stanley Camp internees here Married to Maud Minnie Mather as noted at: https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/8893-mather-maud-minnie/
He was a retired marine engineer and appears to have worked for the China Navigation Co. Ltd.
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Walter Wesselhoeft Hoffmann was an American diplomat and served as Vice Consul in Hong Kong at the time of the Japanese invasion in December 1941.
After the fall of Hong Kong, Hoffmann and the American delegation comprising 20 persons were divided equally and occupied two houses, which were near to one another on Mount Cameron. They stayed on Mount Cameron for two months before being transferred to Stanley Camp. Release from confinement came on 29 June 1942 for repatriation to the United States.
