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This is Elizabeth Starchenko - my great grandmother and mother-in-law of AJ Savitsky. She lived outside of Stanley as she remained a 3rd National (Russian). Not sure if I have asked before but would anyone happen to have any accounts about her time outside of Stanley during the war? I thought I'd ask just in case - even though its probably a long shot.

Here's a brief biography about her.

A remarkable woman who experienced much hardship and show much resiliency in her life.

Mother to 3 sons and 3 daughters.

Freddie Neale is recorded in the Jurors List of 1932 as a member of the Wireless Department in Butterfield & Swire. He met the 18 year-old Dorothy Moon in Hong Kong in 1930, who had accompanied her father, Edward Moon while her mother stayed in England. They married in England in 1933. Dorothy was evacuated to Australia in August 1940 with their children, Margaret and Chris. Freddie managed to get away to Pelambang, Sumatra before the Japanese invasion in December 1941.

Professor of Chinese History and Religion, Australian National University

Sally Gaby was born to Iris and Cyril Gaby in Shanghai in 1935. She was brought up with her cousin, Daphne Cook, daughter of Iris's sister Marjorie and whom the Gabys had agreed to adopt. The family were a part of a swap with Japanese POWs in Australia, where they then settled. Sally was one of the great-grandchildren of the Swedish tavern owner John Olson and grandchild of Charles and Elizabeth Warnes. Both Iris and Marjorie had been brought up and educated at the Canossian Convent after the death of their parents.

Maude Caroline Franks (née Braga)

Born, Hong Kong, 8 December 1898; died, Sydney, 18 October 1962, aged 63.

Artist

Advertising representative of the Newspaper Enterprise Limited in pre-WWII Hong Kong

A Clerk in the Hongkong Electric Company in pre-WWII Hong Kong

Leslie Bauld worked for HATS (Hongkong Air Terminal Services).

He was born in Shanghai 12 July 1926, second son of John (Jack) Bauld and Wilfreda (Freda) Barkus.  (She was the daughter of Captain Robert Barkus) The family moved to NSW Australia after the war and are buried in Woronora Cemetery, Sutherland.

Leslie died at Sydney airport from a heart attack in 1985.

Capt. Barkus died in Tientsin.

They were in Lunghwha Camp as POW's.

Brother Dennis and sister Doreen (Bamforth).