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Adelaide VAN DE VEERE (née LAMB, aka Bobby) [1893-1973]

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 08/29/2024 - 22:36

Mrs. Adelaide Van de Veere, formerly a resident of Shanghai arrived in Hong Kong in November 1937. In Prisoner of the Japs, Gwen Dew described Adelaide Van de Veere (aka Bobby) as a "clever saleslady". The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury mentioned that she formerly worked at the Sea Captain's Shop (location not given).

Whilst in Hong Kong, she qualified to be an ANS Nurse. Hong Kong Daily Press 30 October 1940 refers.

Jack Aitchison THOMAS [1903-????]

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:04

Jack Aitchison Thomas appears in the 1941 Jurors List as a police guard (watchman) employed by Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.

He was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.

William Henry TAYLOR [1906-1965]

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 08/29/2024 - 08:45

William Henry Taylor was employed as a principal economist in the Division of Monetary Research of the Treasury Department in Washington D.C.. He had been appointed to the China Stabilization Board and was on official business in China and Hong Kong in December 1941. 

After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated in 1942.