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Hugo Eric Foy was an employee of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation who was first posted to the East in 1925.

He married Enid Joyce Lidderdale on September 8, 1936. The couple had four children, one of whom died in infancy, one of whom was born in 1939, another during the Japanese occupation, and the last in 1951. <Read more ...>

Hilda Guy was a student of Botany and Education at Leeds University, where she met William Gawan Sewell. The couple married in 1922. They had three daughters and one son (their eldest daugter died aged 7).

The couple went to Chengdu in 1924 and for  the next seventeen years William worked as both Quaker missionary and university lecturer. They were in Hong Kong on a temporary pass when the Japanese attacked. During the hostilities the family spent time with a group at the house of George and Helen Kenndy-Skipton. <Read more ...>

Margaret Watson, a graduate of the London School of Economics, came to Hong Kong in July 1939 to become the Colony's first Medical Social Worker.

She was a friend of Hilda Selwyn-Clarke, and, like her, one of Hong Kong's small group of British leftists. When Mrs Selwyn-Clarke and her daughter were sent to Stanley camp in May 1943, Watson moved to Bungalow D to share a small room with them. <Read more ...>

Mildred Dibden was a missionary with the evangelical Anglican Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society. She first came to Hong Kong in 1931, but had to go home because of a near-fatal bout of malaria. She had noticed the plight of Hong Kong's abandoned children, and was determined to help them, so she returned to the Colony in 1936 and opened orphanges in various locations including Cheung Chao. In 1940 she moved into an estate in Fanling and kept this home open, with the assitance of Ruth Little and Chinese staff, throughout the Japanese occupation. <Read more ...>