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Occupation given as salesman.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/8280-hardoon-charles-isaac/

List of Children in Stanley Camp here Slight discrepancy noted in the date of birth below and in family genealogy. The latter has been used .

Source

1. Family Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

List of Children in Stanley Camp here

Source

1. Family Genealogy:  https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

2. Reginald Cullen's name/signature appears as a senior student under "School" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Source

1. Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dockyard and resided on site.

He was a Private with the HKVDC during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. Corporal Fred Cullen died on 2 March 1945 and is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery.

Source

1. Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

Mary Noel Baxter was a missionary and teacher and joined St. Stephen's Girls' College in January 1929. In 1936 she was appointed as Warden of St Stephen's Hall at the University of Hong Kong. After internment in Stanley Camp, she returned to England.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/7247-baxter-mary-noel/

Vera Silcocks arrived in Hong Kong in 1927. She was a missionary and teacher at Ying Wa Girls' School and became the School's headmistress in 1939. After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

She retired in 1967 after 40 years of service with the School. To celebrate the School's 105th anniversary in 2005, a DVD was released regarding her life and long service.

Sources

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/9669-silcocks-vera-dorothy-alexandra/

Irene May Blanchett was the daughter of Revd. Charles Isaac Blanchett and Ann (Annie) Walsh, C.M.S. missionaries based in South China. She was the younger sister to Hannah Gertrude Wittenbach (née Blanchett).

She was born about 1911/12 and appears to have been better known as Maysie Blanchett. 

Hannah Gertrude Blanchett married Rev. Henry August Wittenbach in Christ Church at Shameen on 10 April 1928. She was was the eldest daughter of Rev. Charles Isaac Blanchett and Annie Walsh of the Church Missionary Society based in Canton.

The First Secretary of Housing from 1973 to 1977.