Everything tagged: Canada

My late wife's mother.

I am not sure where to start here, in spite of the fact that I have been looking through GWULO for some time now. I am hoping to be able to achieve three basic purposes here: contribute information for everyone's benefit; research my late wife's ancestry and, very important, to let any of my wife's friends from the 50s and 60s who are not aware of it that my wife of 55 years, Victoria (aka "VICKY") Frances Eleanor Sanchez, born in Hong Kong on 16th August 1945, passed away from breast cancer in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada on 17th June 2023.

Fireman/water tender in the engine room of the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  Liberated September 1945.  From Everett, Washington and/or Mullan, Idaho.  Canadian and/or U.S. citizen. 

Mentioned in the 1942 list of Civilian Internees:

The Deacons Archive at HKU has an entry showing  that her husband was in the HKVDC, and was killed in action:

Architect.

His projects included:

• Arrowhead, his own house at Repulse Bay (the page for Arrowhead includes several people's memories of Mr Alvares).
• Tregunter Mansions

Captain Stanley Martin Banfill was a doctor in The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.

Further information:

• HKVCA individual report
• Obituary
• Photo: Captain Stanley M. Banfill Returns Home from the Far East, Montreal, Quebec, 13 October 1945.

KGV student and prefect 1953-54

Passenger List 1933 Liverpool to Hong Kong

Josiah Logan Adams 43 civil engineer [25 April 1889 26 March 1965 Toronto Ancestry Tree]

Gladys Dewhurst Adams 40

Passenger List 1938 Liverpool to Hong Kong

Josiah L Adams 49 Civil Engineer Butterfield and Swire 

Gladys D Adams 45 houswife [ died 1955 Wirral Cheshire] 

Jurors List

Josiah Logan Adams Civil Engineer

UK Residents 1941 - 1945

Adams, J.L. 53, Civil Engineer, No 350 LRTP

Entry in the 1942 list of Prisoners of War: