Everything tagged: WW2: moved to Shanghai

Edith May Begley was a Salvation Army missionary. She was married to Major Colin Keith Henry Begley of the Salvation Army. They arrived in Hong Kong in 1941. Major Begley came to take charge of the Salvation Army's relief work in Hong Kong and South China and later administer the communal feeding centres that were set up by the government.

She joined the Auxiliary Nursing Service after her arrival. During the Battle of Hong Kong, she was stationed at La Salle Relief Hospital.

Alexander Michael Yazejy was an American merchant and had a business in China. From the links below, Yazejy was initially interned at Stanley Camp in 1942.

He appears to have been transferred to Shanghai in March 1943 and interned at Chapei Camp and released at the end of the Pacific war.

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R G Southerton was passing through Hong Kong on the way to Shanghai in 1941. He was stranded here when war broke out, interned in Stanley Camp, but able to return to Shanghai in July 1942. He died in 1948. (Details extracted from a longer post by Philip Cracknell).

John Black's list notes Peter's occupation in 1941 was "student".