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When Lucy Baird was born in 1888 in Golftyn Lane, Connah’s Quay, on the River Dee, Flintshire, her father, James, was 45, and a foreman in the shipbuilding works. Her mother, Jane, was 42. Lucy had nine siblings, of which she was the youngest. Some of them died in infancy. It was in Connah’s Quay that she grew up as the census returns of 1891 and 1901 attest.
Prisoner of war, Hong Kong 1941-1945.
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) - Nursing Sister
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, three nurses stayed at the Hong Kong Royal Naval Hospital, and she was one of them.
Prisoner of war, Hong Kong 1941-1945.
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) - Nursing Sister
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, three nurses stayed at the Hong Kong Royal Naval Hospital, and she was one of them.
[Updated 24/Feb/2026]
Barbara Lomas was a missionary nurse who was born in 1909 to Charles and Elizabeth Lomas in Withington, Manchester. The 1911 census tells us that Charles was a warehouseman for a company dealing in cotton goods and the family with two girls and Elizabeth’s widowed mother lived in a respectable Victorian terraced house.
[Updated 18/Jun/2026]
Winifred Lechmere Clift was the wife of, and co-worker with, a pioneering medical missionary working in China. They both worked for the CMS, the BCMS, and independently, and spent the latter half of their lives in Hong Kong.
Born in England (1913) but raised in Canada, Verent Mills gave up a promising career as a diesel engineer to became a missionary (with a heart for children) to south China in 1931. Desperately lonely, he cabled his fiancee Alma Kenney back home, and invited her to join the work. She came straight out, they married in 1932 and continued the work, at the same time raising a family there. Together they started
Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne (Archdeacon) was a Church-of-England missionary, who served in China with his wife Gladys for his working life, before retiring to Hong Kong.
John Clifford, a graduate of Eton and Oxford, who served with the British 8th Army during W.W. 2, was a well-known Hong Kong barrister-at-law who, at the time of his death, lived with his wife Sheila and two young boys at 298 Gough Hill Road. He was tragically stabbed to death outside the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building in Des Voeux Central on his way home to lunch on Saturday 4th August 1956.