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Her husband was C R Lee.

She accompanied the Japanese when they made their first "Peace Mission" from Kowloon to Hong Kong on the 13th Dec 1941, requesting the British surrender.

Gwen Priestwood was supposed to be a nurse during the Japanese attack, but volunteered to drive a food supply lorry instead.

Soon after the surrender, she tried to escape with others but the plan came to nothing. She was interned in Stanley Camp with the rest of the Allied civilians, but on March 18, 1942 she began an escape with policeman W. P. Thompson. She carried with her to Chungking a complete list of British internees.

In 1944 she published an account of her experiences: Through Japanese Barbed-wire.

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Notes from contributor 1314:

John Cecil CONDER aka Jack Conder, born Plaistow,Essex in  1907,served with HM Forces in Shanghai and then 1928 - 1931 as member of the Shanghai Municipal Police.

See also www.chingchic.com/masonry-1969.html which has a photo - Google has a chinese article which alludes to him being an employee of Butterfield's in China in 1944.

Wife of George, mother of Norah.

Notes from Nick Stedman, grandson of F. O. Stedman:

My grandfather Osmund Stedman built the new Peak Hospital in 1898.  He initially lived at 1 Gough Hill which took a little while to find when I was last there because of Peak Rd, which wasn't there in those days.  He later lived at 6 Queens Gardens.

My mother was married to William Henry Edgar Colledge.

Wife of Alfred Mann, Hong Kong Police Officer