Everything tagged: WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Walter Wesselhoeft Hoffmann was an American diplomat and served as Vice Consul in Hong Kong at the time of the Japanese invasion in December 1941. 

After the fall of Hong Kong, Hoffmann and the American delegation comprising 20 persons were divided equally and occupied two houses, which were next to each other on Mount Cameron. They stayed on Mount Cameron for two months before being transferred to Stanley Camp. Release from confinement came on 29 June 1942 for repatriation to the United States. 

Thomas Burlington Wilson appears in the 1941 Jurors List as Manager of American President Lines Ltd..He was interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10173-wilson-thomas-burlington/

Richard Clement Wilson was a veteran newspaper reporter and editor for United Press in Southeast Asia and Manila. He was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.

His personal papers are held by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. See https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7h4nb29v/entire_text/

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Tiffany Bernard Williams appears in the 1941 Jurors List as an assistant working for the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company. He was interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated to the Unites States in 1942.

Source

1. His personal papers are kept at the University of Michigan: https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-ams0060

James Anbra Wilkins was interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10120-wilkins-james-anbra/

Between 1936 and 1942, Halsey Hulbert Matteson Wilbur was employed by the National City Bank of New York  and given various assignments concerned with foreign branch banking.

He was interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated in 1942. After repatriation, he enlisted and joined the United States Marine Corps.

Mary Etta Whitney aka Etta Whitney was a missionary and pastor and served the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. She came to South China and Hong Kong in 1940 and supported the Rev. John Bechtel 

Etta Whitney was interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942. After repatriation, she went on speaking tours describing her time during the Japanese occupation.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10109-whitney-mary-etta/

At the fall of Hong Kong, Henry Randall White was a schoolboy studying at Diocesan Boys' School . He was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942. His parents are not known.

(On the Gripsholm passenger list, a line had been drawn through his name and his details had been transferred to another sheet.)

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10084-white-henry/

Titus Carr Westbrook worked for British American Tobacco Co. Ltd., in the Far East. He was present during the fall of Hong Kong and later interned at Stanley Camp. He was repatriated in 1942.

Titus Westbrook died in 1943.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/10068-westbrook-titus-carr/

2. The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury dated 17 September 1943. See here

Arthur Leroy Watrous belonged to the independent missionaries who worked in South China and Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.

Obituary/Memorial:  https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L2M5-HRJ/arthur-leroy-watrous-1918-2008