Former China resident, John Sherwin Brenneman (Texas Co., China Ltd.) was repatriated on the first exchange voyage of the Gripsholm after internment in Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 1944, Brenneman was with California Texas Oil Co., Ltd., in New York City.
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1. The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (based in New York) on 24 March 1944: https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11033152_002/ldpd_11033152_002/page/94/mode/2up
In 1935, Bradford was appointed manager for Frigidaire in China and made his base in Shanghai. In 1939, he moved to Tientsin and worked for General Motors. With war raging on in China, Bradford returned to the United States in 1940. Inexplicably, he returned to Asia and this time to Hong Kong in October 1941.
Bradord was interned in Stanley Camp and later repatriated with other Americans in 1942.
Obituary/Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120181412/gilmore-garland-bradford
Father Bowers belonged to the Maryknoll Mission. He went to China in 1933 and was assigned to the Kongmoon (Jiangmen) mission in Kwangtung (Guangdong). Father Bowers was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated in 1942.
Obituary/Memorial: https://maryknollmissionarchives.org/deceased-fathers-bro/brother-lawrence-bowers-mm/
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Worked for the American President Lines (APL). In the 1950s, he was the APL's assistant managing director of the Japan area. Fay Freedom Booth was in Hong Kong when war broke out. He was interned in Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.
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1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/7350-booth-faye-freedom/
Gerald Warner was the American Consul in Kobe, Japan the day Pearl Harbour was bombed.
The war diary starts from 8 December 1941 in Kobe until 25-28 August 1942 after the repatriation ship, "Gripsholm" had docked in Jersey City, United States. The Asama Maru picked up internees from Hong Kong on 29 June 1942. Some familiar names from the American contingent in Hong Kong are mentioned during interactions with Warner on board the Asama Maru/Gripsholm.
Born James Benson but was known as Father Arthur J. Benson, C. P.. He was a Roman Catholic priest of the Passionist Order and had come to China in 1923 and later assigned as the Mission Procurator in Shanghai.
George E. Baxter was the Hong Kong Bureau Manager of United Press. In 1942, Baxter was interned in Stanley Camp. His wife, Inez M. Baxter was trapped in Shanghai and interned in Chapei Camp.
Father George H Bauer served the Maryknoll Mission in Kongmoon (Jiangmen), Kwantung (Guangdong), China. He went to China in 1925.
In 1942, Father Bauer was interned in Stanley Camp and later repatriated. He returned to China after the war and left at the end of 1950 back to the United States. Father Bauer died in 1973.
Source
1. Maryknoll Mission Archives: https://maryknollmissionarchives.org/deceased-fathers-bro/father-george-h-bauer-mm/
Jean M. Barr was an American missionary and a registered nurse serving the leper colony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Loting, Kwangtung (Luoding, Guangdong), China.
In 1942, she was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated with other Americans.
In 1955, she married Wilber Raymond McWhinney. Jean M. Barr died in 1982.
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110642026/jean-mcwhinney
Attaway retired as Chief Petty Officer and served in the United States Navy from 1912 to 15 January 1929 when he was transferred to the Naval Reserve. He was at that time stationed in Hong Kong.
Attaway married in China in 1932 and adopted an orphaned baby in 1935. It appears Attaway had been living in either Hong Kong or China during the Japanese invasion as he was interned in Stanley Camp and later repatriated in 1942.