Ritsu WOOD (née UMETSU, aka Emily) [1889-1983]
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Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2013-12-31 21:12
Sex:
Female
Status:
Deceased
Emily Ritsu Wood (Japanese-German) married an Englishman, Captain Cecil Herbert Wood on April 6, 1910 in Hong Kong.
She was interned in Stanley with her children and grandchildren (the Hamson family and Leilah Wood). She used her native Japanese language to get blackmarket medicine from a guard most of which she gave to Tweed Bay Hospital. She also sold personal items to buy blackmarket food for internees in need.
After the war she emigrated to Canada and became an artist.
Source:
Allana Corbin, Prisoners of the East, 2002, 10, 15, 174-5, 362
Connections:
- Ritsu WOOD (née UMETSU, aka Emily) [1889-1983] parent of Leilah Lois WOOD [????- ]
- Ritsu WOOD (née UMETSU, aka Emily) [1889-1983] parent of Edith Mary HAMSON (née WOOD) [1911-2003]
