Everything tagged: WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Shipping executive for American Trading Company, the American firm that owned the freighter Admiral Y.S. Williams, which was captured in drydock along with its all-American crew in December 1941 in Hong Kong.  A U.S.

Her entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

Philip Cracknell has written about the family on his blog:

Archibald and Frances Cook - their story of a family separated by war

Mentioned in several diaries as 'Colonel Doughty'.

Details of birth & death from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112642053/hollis-powers-gale