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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.

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.

Walter John Bush was a young coalminer from Rugeley in Staffordshire before joining the RGA in May 1903 and sailing at the end of that year to HKG. He spent five years there, initially with 80 Coy RGA and then 88 Coy RGA - I think mostly at Lyemun Barracks.

He arrived in Hong Kong in 1888 as a Cadet, then after learning Chinese he was appointed to a succession of roles in the local civil service. In 1901 he became the Registrar General, and remained in that role until retiring in 1912 on the grounds of ill health.

Local sites named after him:

Sir John Francis Davis, 1st Baronet Bt KCB FRS  was a British diplomat and sinologist who served as second Governor of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1848. Davis was the first President of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong.

Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard GCMG CB DSO PC, known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, mercenary, explorer of Africa and a colonial administrator. He was the 14th Governor of Hong Kong (1907–1912).