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Lieutenant Kay Christie was one of two women who arrived in Hong Kong alongside almost two thousand Canadian soldiers on November 16, 1941.

During the December hostilities and the first part of the occupation she served at Bowen Road Military Hospital. In August 1942 she was moved to Stanley Camp along with other nursing staff

She was sent home as part of the general Canadian repatriation of September 1943 as the Japanese accepted her civilian status. She returned to Toronto where she worked as a specialist medical secretary.

Sources:

Date of death from http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/supportingunits.html

Buried in Notre Dame cemetery Ottawa.

Author of "Underground From Hong Kong"

Thomas Christopher Monaghan came to Hong Kong in 1921 to establish facilities for Canadian Pacific Railways steamship cruises in the Far East.

He joined the HKVDC (Volunteers) the day before the Japanese attack.

During the occupation he claimed Irish nationality to avoid internment and devoted himself to relief and resistance activities. He eventually became an agent of the British Army Aid Group (codename: 'Mysterious'). is main work was in organising escapes from Hong Kong.

David Robert Fyffe's daughter wrote the following notes on the Stanley Camp discussion board:

David was born on February 13, 1914 in Montreal. His parents were originally from Dundee, Scotland. They moved to Montreal for a number of years, but returned to Dundee when David was a youngster.