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James T WARD [1942- ]

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Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-07-17 16:17
Names
Given: 
James T
Family: 
Ward
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Unknown
Birth
Date: 
1942-07-15
Birthplace (town, state): 
On board the NYK ship, "Asama Maru".

Philip Cracknell wrote:

George Baxter on Page 44 of Personal Experiences During the seige of HK - " On July 15th a baby boy was born to the wife of Dr Ward, a missionary family who had been at Stanley. of American captive parents , on a Jap ship in the Indian Ocean". [...]

I think the parents were Cecil Sylvester and Margaret G Ward.

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Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2012-07-26 14:59.

When we were about half way on our journey through this body of water a missionary family received  a bundle of joy, a little boy. These were lovely, young, spirited missionaries whom we had known in Hong Kong. Some of the clothes for this little newcomer had been made by the mother while in camp out of her husband's handkerchiefs.

Robert Hammond, Bondservants of the Japanese, 1942/1957, page 76.