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Australian author, journalist, and long-term resident of Hong Kong.

Major biographical works:

Hughes, Richard, Foreign Devil: Thirty Years of Reporting in the Far East, Andre Deutsch Limited, London 1972.

Macswan, Norman, The Man Who Read the East Wind: A Biography of Richard Hughes Extraordinary Correspondent, Kangaroo Press, Sydney 1982.

Evelyn Paterson was a Red Cross volunteer during WW1 and went on to become a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital. It is not yet known how she met her future husband, Harry Hewett, whose parents had lived in China and who went on to have a career in the Far East himself. Both Evelyn's parents are recorded as having "private means". They lived in  Ilford, Essex. Evelyn travelled to Hong Kong in 1925, where she married Harry. They lived at 18 Broadwood Road, (albeit with trips back to England), until Evelyn and her daughter, Shirley Ann were evacuated to Australia before WW2.

Robina Hughina Rostron Andress was a teacher at Pooi Sun English School. She appears to have been related (sister ?) to Emily May Rostron Tye (nee Andress) and likely had a Chinese-Australian connection.

During the Battle of Hong Kong, she was stationed at La Salle Relief Hospital. Her name/signature appears under "La Salle College" (La Salle Relief Hospital) on the left on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Frances Gordon Ogilvie was a Presbyterian missionary teacher. She went to China in 1920 and served in the mission schools in Canton. With rising tensions in southern China, Frances Ogilvie relocated to Hong Kong in 1940 and re-established the Shung Kei Bible Training Institute in Shatin.

Delwyn Vaughan Rees was a missionary doctor, born in 1895, in Prahran, Victoria, Australia, one of six children.  He served in the mission field for 30 years in China and then practised for 10 years as a doctor in Hong Kong.

His obituary appeared on

Entry on the Hong Kong War Diary website, under 'HMS Moth':

Creer, Reginald Charles [130] Commander RAN

Braga, Hugh. Engineer and leader of youth work.