Everything tagged: WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Her obituary is online at:

http://www.heraldcourier.com/obituaries/locke-harriet/article_7b0e3808-…

DoB fom John Black's list, which gives his occupation in 1941 as "Canadian Pacific Railway", and also notes his nationality was Canadian.

DoB from John Black's list.

Barbara Petro was working at the American Consulate at the time of the Japanese attack of December 8, 1941. With the rest of the American diplomats and staff, she was held in a house just outside the boundaries of Stanley until just before the June/July repatriation, which she joined. Her husband had already escaped from Hong Kong, and it's believed she joined him in the USA.

Source:

Emily Hahn, China to Me, 1987 ed., 293, 307, 368.

T. B. Wilson was head of the American President Lines Hong Kong office in 1941. One of the first indications that a Japanese attack was imminent came  at about midnight on December 6 at a Grand Fancy Dress Party, held at the Peninsula Hotel in aid of the British and Chinese war funds, when Wilson announced that anyone connected with a ship in the harbour should report for duty at once.

He was interned in Stanley and repatriated on the Asama Maru/Gripsholm.

American missionary and teacher. He, his wife Sally, and family were interned in Stanley and repatriated on the Asama Maru/Gripsholm.