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David DRUMMOND (aka Dave) [c.1884-????]

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-09 12:59
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Drummond
Given: 
David
Alias / nickname: 
Dave
Birth
Date: 
c.1884-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
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WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Charles W SKEET [????- ]

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-09 12:57
Status: 
Unknown
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Skeet
Given: 
Charles W
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1943 Teia Maru + Gripsholm

George E COSTELLO [????- ]

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-09 12:57
Status: 
Unknown
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Costello
Given: 
George E
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1943 Teia Maru + Gripsholm

Norwood Francis ALLMAN [1893-1987]

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-09 12:26
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Allman
Given: 
Norwood Francis
Birth
Date: 
1893-07-24
Death
Date: 
1987-02-28

Brian Edgar writes:

Allman was an American lawyer from Shanghai stuck in HK during the attack. After the repatriation he became head if the Far Eastern Bureau of the OSS (Don's dad's boss?) and later worked for the CIA.

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WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Henry August WITTENBACH [1900-1989]

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-09 12:10
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Wittenbach
Given: 
Henry August
Birth
Date: 
1900-08-10
Death
Date: 
1989-02-27

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Wittenbach's occupation in 1941 as "Clergyman".

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WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Gwen DEW [1903-1993]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-12-08 19:21
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Dew
Given: 
Gwen
Birth
Date: 
1903-06-18
Birthplace (town, state): 
Albion, Michigan
Death
Date: 
1993-06-17

Gwen Dew was an American journalist. In 1936 she began travelling the world, mainly Asia, and writing a popular weekly column about her advenures. She took many photos of the December 1941 hostilities almost all of which have been lost.

She was interned in Stanley after the surrender and repatriated in late June 1942.

In 1948 she married Captain James Buchanan who died five years later.

Source:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7099766

Birthplace (country): 
United States
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Hilda SEWELL (née GUY) [1898-1987]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-12-08 18:19
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Sewell
Given: 
Hilda
Maiden: 
Guy
Birth
Date: 
1898-01-18
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hunslet, West Yorkshire
Death
Date: 
c.1987-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

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.

Birthplace (country): 
United Kingdom
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Norman H. BRIGGS [c.1905-1993]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-12-08 17:09
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Briggs
Given: 
Norman H.
Birth
Date: 
c.1905-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
c.1993-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

California resident Norman Briggs was sent to Hong Kong by Standard Oil in August 1941.

During the December fighting he volunteered to work for Food Control. After the surrender he was interned in Stanley until the reaptriation of late JUne 1942.

Soon after being reunited his family he wrote a wartime memoir which was published posthumously in 2006 - Taken in Hong Kong. This provides a detailed and balanced account of the American experience of internment.

Birthplace (country): 
United States
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Esther REITON [????- ]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2013-12-07 22:26
Status: 
Unknown
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Reiton
Given: 
Esther

The younger daughter of Albert Kato Reiton and his second wife Rose Etta.

She was in Kowloon with her parents and her sister's family (the Hammonds) during the 1941 hostilities and was interned in Stanley until the repatriation of late June 1942.

Source:

Robert Hammond, Bondservants of the Japanese (1942), 1957 ed., 15

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

Rose Etta REITON (née FEMMER) [1886-1957]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2013-12-07 22:14
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Reiton
Given: 
Rose Etta
Maiden: 
Femmer
Birth
Date: 
1886-10-03
Birthplace (town, state): 
Americus, Missouri
Death
Date: 
1957-07-25

Rose Etta Femmer married the Reverend Albert Kato Reiton in January 1913 in the United States. The couple came to Hong Kong that March to work as evangelists. In November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Misson in Kowloon.

She was in Kowloon with her family during the 1941 hostilities. After a period spent in hiding the were interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated in late June 1942.

She died in Hong Kong in 1957.

Sources:

Birthplace (country): 
United States
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: repatriated 1942 Asama Maru + Gripsholm

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