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She is mentioned in the 1942 List of Civilian Internees:

Note from EdwardAlder: Norman Railton, employee of Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong(Insurance Dept?), interned in Stanley Camp during Japanese occupation, d Hong Kong ca 1946

He was a civil servant, eg entry 816 in the 1938 Government Gazette notes:

[...] Mr. WILLIAM ANEURIN JONES, Assistant Crown Solicitor, is attached to the Treasury as from 17th October, 1938.

"FUNERAL OF MR. SYMONS 

The funeral of the late Mr. Paul Hannay Symons, M.S.C., F.R.I.C., Government physiologist, was held in the Colonial Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The Rev. A. Drake officiated.

Among those present were Colonel Felihey, Col. H.S. Rouse, Col. Ware, Col. Forbes, Col. Gordon King, Col. T.R. Rowell, Major Miles, Surgeon Captain Keating and Mr. H.A. Taylor."

I have been researching the work of the Friends Ambulance Unit who distributed medical supplies and services in China throughout the nineteen forties.  Towards the end of the forties, Hong Kong became their entry and exit point and they worked at the North Point Relief Camp while waiting for entry permits to China.