DoB from John Black's copy of the CWGC list of internees, which gives Miss Hirst's occupation in 1941 as "Stenographer".
She's listed on page J1 of the 1939 Blue Book as Stenographer to the Governor, first appointed to the civil service on 1st August. 1933.
DoB comes from John Black's copy of the CWGC list of internees, which gives Mr Jones's occupation in 1941 as "Draughtsman".
Mr Jones is listed on page J114 of the 1939 Blue Book as one of the two Chief Draughtsmen in the Public Works Department, first appointed to the Hong Kong Government on the 3rd Jan, 1939.
From the mentions in Eric Macnider's Diary, it looks as though Mr Higgins was an American priest.
Michael Martin writes:
Leo Borisoff was a White Russian Policeman in HK and in Stanley Camp and he was friends with my grandfather and his cousin Vitaly 'Vic' Veriga.
DoB from John Black's copy of the CWGC list of internees at Stanley, which gives Miss Darby's occupation in 1941 as "Stenographer".
The first mention I see for him is in the 1933 Jurors List, where he is working as a Steward at the H.K. & Shanghai Hotels, Ld. By the 1941 List, he's still with the same company but promoted to Maitre d'Hotel.
John Black's copy of the CWGC list of internees at Stanley has a typo in the surname: "V I Olafinsky". It gives his occupation in 1941 as "Ast Hotel Manager", and DoB as 1905.
He is buried in plot 18---/03/04- of the Protestant cemetery at Happy Valley, together with another family member who also died in 1942. His gravestone reads:
In loving memory of
Paul Oscar Peuster
born 7th July 1881
died 3rd June 1942
Yin King [Cheng] Peuster
born 12th August 190? (last digit not clear, maybe "6")
died 18th February 1970
Paul William Peuster
born 14th October 1925
died 9th August 1942
DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Rowell's occupation in 1941 as "Housewife".
