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John Rutherford SPENCE [1880-1976]

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Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-09-21 08:36
Names
Given: 
John Rutherford
Family: 
Spence
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1880-10-10
Birthplace (town, state): 
Denholm
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Death
Date: 
1976-05-12

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Spence's occupation in 1941 as "Missionary".

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1943 Teia Maru + Gripsholm
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Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2019-02-19 21:49.

John Rutherford Spence was born on October 10th, 1880 in Denholm, Scotland.

At some point he acquired Canadian nationality. Morris Cohen - who he lent money to in Stanley - describes him as from Winnipeg. 

He was a missionary with the Pentecostal Church: judging from this article, he was based in Hong Kong with responsibility for south China:

1939_01.pdf

He was repatriated with the other Canadians in September 1943.

He died on May 12th, 1976 in new Westminster, B. C., Canada.

Source:

Spence-3160