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• Forrow joined the Volunteer Air Arm as a cadet pilot and trained to fly torpedo-bombers and amphibians. These aircraft were destroyed by the Japanese when they invaded Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. Later, he was assigned to a Volunteer rescue unit and continued to rescue civilians before being captured. He was eventually imprisoned in Sham Shui Po POW camp, where his mother was also interned in Stanley.
• He helped the Hong Kong Football Club survive after WWII. His leadership rebuilt the club, which remains a thriving institution today.

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.

• Royal Navy Paymaster Commander in Hong Kong prior to the Japanese occupation.
• In 1941, he was a member of the Hong Kong Food and Firewood Control Board (糧食柴薪統制委員會) . 
• Became a prisoner of war and was interned in Hong Kong Argyle St. Camp - POW Camp 'N' (1941 - 1945)
• The first reunion dinner of Argyle Street prisoners of war was held on August, 1948, attended by about 75 ex-POWs, with Major-General Maltby presiding. Commander Blair Hickman was one of the attendees.
  
   

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. 

 

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. 

Winifred Lechmere Clift was the wife of, and co-worker with, a pioneering medical missionary working in China.  They both worked for the CMS, then the BCMS, 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 for his working life, before retiring to Hong Kong.