Born c1879 Elizabeth Lucas served with the BCMS from 1924 to her semi-retirement in 1933.
When the Clifts handed over their Children’s Home in Nanning, Guangxi Province to the BCMS in 1924, Miss Lucas became its superintendent, reporting to Dr Lechmere Clift, who had moved to Hong Kong.
This is the last site along Broadwood Road, so I'm guessing it is where 24 Broadwood Road stood, using the initial numbering of the road. [Dec 2024 update: From the comments below it is still unclear which building this was, so the marker is just to show the neighborohood where it likely stood.]
The Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society (BCMS) was born out of the long-established Church Missionary Society (CMS) in October 1922, its founders wanting to show their belief in the complete trustworthiness and authority of the Bible in the face of what was perceived to be theological liberalism in the mother society. Conservative Evangelical in persuasion, its headquarters at the start of the war were situated at 14 Victoria Street, London SW1,
Mildred Dibden was a missionary with the evangelical Anglican Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society. She first came to Hong Kong in 1931, but had to go home because of a near-fatal bout of malaria. She had noticed the plight of Hong Kong's abandoned children, and was determined to help them, so she returned to the Colony in 1936 and opened orphanges in various locations including Cheung Chao. In 1940 she moved into an estate in Fanling and kept this home open, with the assitance of Ruth Little and Chinese staff, throughout the Japanese occupation.
