Everything tagged: La Salle Relief Hospital

Better known as Brother "Anthony" (or Antony) Kilbourn, FSC. He served the Brothers of the Christian Schools - La Salle (De La Salle Brothers) and arrived in Hong Kong on 25 September 1936. He had previously worked in the Philippine Islands until his transfer to Hong Kong.

Jean M. Barr was an American missionary and a registered nurse serving the leper colony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Loting, Kwangtung (Luoding, Guangdong), China.

During the Battle of Hong Kong, she was stationed at La Salle Relief Hospital. After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated with other Americans in 1942. In 1955, she married Wilber Raymond McWhinney. Jean M. Barr died in 1982.

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 

• Auxiliary Medical Corps 

I asked on the Stanley Camp discussion list:

I see she trained to join the Auxiliary Nursing Service (ANS): 
https://gwulo.com/comment/29412#comment-29412

And Tony lists her with the ANS at the La Salle Relief Hospital during 
the fighting: 
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/uniformedcivilians.html

She qualified as an ANS nurse on 13 Dec 1940: http://gwulo.com/comment/29412#comment-29412

Her obituary was reported in the Catholic Examiner:

Sister Therese-de-l’Infant-Jesus of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Yvonne Gerin of Coaticook, Quebec, Canada), died of a heart attack in St. Teresa’s Hospital, Kowloon, on Wednesday, 21 December 1960, aged 63, having spent 43 years in Religious life and 21 years in the missions.