Everything tagged: WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Steward or "2nd cook" aboard the Admiral Y.S.

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942. 

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942.  From Omaha, NB.

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.

Florence Meeker was born in Cook, Illinois in 1905.

She married Erwin Raetz and they had two children.

Erwin Raetz was born in 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA.  He trained in the ministry and was ordained.

He married Florence Meeker and they had two children.

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

Lula Bell Hough was an American missionary (born 1906) who was ordained by the Assemblies of God in 1929 and, aged 23, left her comfortable life in America to go to Guangzhou, South China, to preach the gospel in a previously unreached area.