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Edith Irene HAMMOND [1941- ]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 21:38

Edith Hammond was the daughter of missionary Bob Hammond and his wife Helen. She was ten and a half months old in January 1942 when she was interned in Stanley with her parents and grandparents. She was part of the Asama Maru/Gripsholm repatriation.

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Robert Hammond, Bondservants of the Japanese (1942), 1957 ed., 49

Robert Bruce HAMMOND [1914-2002]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 21:13

Robert Bruce Hammond was an American missionary with the China Peniel Mission, which was founded by his father-in-law the Rev. A. K. Reiton and is first wife. He went through the 1941 hostilities in Kowloon and was interned in Stanley with his wife, their daughter Edith, and the Reitons, until the American repatriation.

He wrote a memoir of his experience: Bondservants of the Japanese (1942)

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Wenzell BROWN [1911-1981]

Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 17:15

Wenzell Brown was a lecturer at Lingnan University. He was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated with his fellow Americans on June 29/30, 1942.

He wrote a book, Hong Kong Aftermath (1943), which contains a partly fictionalised account of his experiences.

He became a writer of 'pulp fiction', gaining some reputation in the 1950s for his work in the 'juvenile delinquent' genre, and  publishing his only Science Fiction novel in 1975.

He was a Quaker.

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