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Dorothy Margaret SHAW (née ROE) [1897-????]

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Dorothy Margaret Shaw (née Roe) listed her occupation as stenographer. She was married to Joseph Hilton Shaw who worked for the China Light & Power Co., Ltd.

After the fall of Hong Kong. Dorothy M. Shaw was interned at Stanley Camp. Her husband, having joined the HKVDC during the initial days of the battle was interned at Argyle Street Camp and later at Sham Shui Po Camp.

Joseph Hilton SHAW [1898-????]

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Joseph Hilton Shaw was a Stores Superintendent at China Light & Power Co., Ltd.

He was married to Dorothy Margaret Roe. 

During the Battle of Hong Kong, he joined the HKVDC on 11 December 1941. Private Shaw was later interned at Argyle Street and Sham Shui Po Camps. His wife was interned at Stanley Camp.

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William Richard Kingdon COLLINGS (aka Richard) [1904-2007]

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William Richard Kingdon Collings was a Naval Architect. He joined Government as an Assistant Surveyor in the Marine Surveyor's Office of the Harbour Department (later called Marine Department) on 24 November 1933.

He married Flora Muriel Robson at St. Andrew's Church on 5 September 1936.

William Collings better known as "Richard" was a keen golfer and won many local championships. He also served in the HKVDC:

Thomas Fletcher STAINTON [1902-1984]

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In the 1941 Jurors List, Thomas Fletcher Stainton, DCM* was a timekeeper at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. He was also a Sergeant (3093) in the No. 2 Company (Scottish) of the HKVDC.

He married Daisy Elizabeth Minnie Wilson, nursing sister of Queen Mary Hospital at St. John's Cathedral on 23 July 1940. In 1940, he resided at No. 9 Braemar Terrace.

After the fall of Hong Kong, he was in Bowen Road Hospital and later interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. His wife was interned at Stanley Camp.

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Agnes Lamond FLIPPANCE (née STEWART) [1893-c.1953]

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Agnes Lamond Flippance was born on 27 April 1893. Unable to verify but appears to have died in Willesden, Middlesex in 1953.

She married Frederick Flippance in St. Andrew's Church, Penang on 2 June 1932. Agnes followed her husband to Hong Kong in 1938 when he was appointed Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department.

Agnes enlisted in the HKVDC, Nursing Detachment and was attached to St. Albert's Hospital, Rosary Hill prior to the fall of Hong Kong. 

Charles Dixon COUSINS [1875-1959]

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Charles Dixon Cousins (1875-1959) was born in Smethwick in the West Midlands into a prolific LMS* missionary family and served in Hong Kong from 1898.