Everything tagged: those not interned

More information:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Hahn

Notes from http://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/RW-Gallagher.htm :

Dates of birth & death from the Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography.

Thanks to an anonymous contributor for this brief review of Harry Ching's life:

Growing up in Australia

Harry Ching was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1891 to a Hakka father from Shataukok and an English mother from Barnstaple, Devon. He was fourth of ten children.

Brian Edgar writes:

[...] by the time the Japanese attacked on December 8, 1941 he already had a history of commitment to the Allied cause: just before the outbreak of hostilities he’d figured on a ‘blacklist’ drawn up by the Vichy authorities in French Indo-China. [...]

After the surrender, he remained ((in Hong Kong)) uninterned as a ‘third national’, and threw himself into a campaign of relief for the British POWs and internees. He escaped from Hong on April 5, 1944, arriving at the British Army Aid Group Advanced Headquarters at Waichow three days later. [...]