Everything tagged: ANS

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. 

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.

Entry on the 1942 list of civilian internees:

Notes from uptodat:

Year of birth from John Black's list, which gives Miss Cartwright's occupation in 1941 as "stenographer". The Directory & Chronicle for 1940 here shows her working for Arhold & Co. Ltd.

Qualified as an ANS Nurse.  Worked at La Salle Relief Hospital.

• Auxiliary Medical Corps