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Mary Beatrice ROSE (née WANSEY) [1909-1991]

Submitted by David on Thu, 2019-05-30 14:55
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Rose
Given: 
Mary Beatrice
Maiden: 
Wansey
Birth
Date: 
1909-09-20
Death
Date: 
c.1991-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
Japan
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Cecil Jesse Austen GRAY [1908-1968]

Submitted by David on Tue, 2018-11-13 15:30
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Gray
Given: 
Cecil Jesse Austen
Birth
Date: 
1908-07-09
Birthplace (town, state): 
Yokohama
Death
Date: 
1968-12-17

Philip notes that Gray was "RNVR, Flag Lt to Commodore Collinson. He had worked before the war as an Accountant in Shanghai."

The earliest mention of him I've found in Hong Kong so far is his appointment to be an acting sub-lieutenant in the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, effective 20th December, 1939. (See item 31 in the Government Gazette for 12th Jan 1940.)

Birthplace (country): 
Japan
Tags: 
HKNVF

Ian H F KERR [1923-2015]

Submitted by SUZE 40 on Wed, 2017-08-30 05:20
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kerr
Given: 
Ian H F
Birth
Date: 
c.1923-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Yokohama
Death
Date: 
c.2015-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Lived in Taipo 1941 to 1942 . Hong Kong Uni student. Son of Stanley and Vera Kerr. Japanese speaker

Birthplace (country): 
Japan
Tags: 
POW

Yoshino MAYCOCK [c.1881-1952]

Submitted by jill on Sat, 2017-07-15 01:32
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Maycock
Given: 
Yoshino
Birth
Date: 
c.1881-01-01 (Year is approximate)
Death
Date: 
1952-07-10
Other
Other reference: 
John Henry Maycock, John Maycock jnr., William Maycock, Arthur Maycock, Henry Maycock, Robert Maycock, Thomas Maycock, Ernest Maycock,

Yoshino Maycock was the wife of John Henry Maycock. She returned to her family in Japan on the outbreak of war and had no news of the fate of her husband or her Hong Kong-born sons. She was finally reunited with her husband and surviving sons in England two years after the war had ended. Her son Tommy, who had been interned in Stanley, had survived the war but had meanwhile died of TB. Yoshino's remains were interred in the grave of her son Arthur in the Protestant Cemetery. The inscription on it is recorded in Patricia Lim's website:

Birthplace (country): 
Japan

Kichinosuke TSUKAHARA [1895-1984]

Submitted by cmshun on Sat, 2017-03-11 17:57
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Tsukahara
Given: 
Kichinosuke
Birth
Date: 
1895-10-18
Death
Date: 
1984-06-18

On behalf of Professor Togo Tsukahara of Kobe University, I posted three photos of his grandfather Mr Kichinosuke Tsukahara who had been in Hong Kong a number of times during the Japanese occupation:

Photo 1: 

Birthplace (country): 
Japan

Eric George Norton GRIMBLE [1893-1966]

Submitted by David on Mon, 2016-12-12 09:48
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Grimble
Given: 
Eric George Norton
Birth
Date: 
1893-08-24
Birthplace (town, state): 
Kobe
Death
Date: 
1966-09-27

Mt Grimble is mentioned in A H Potts's diary entry for 12 Dec 1941, when Potts had moved to Shouson Hill:

I slept at Eric Grimble’s bungalow, a charming little place near the top of the hill overlooking Deepwater Bay and Aberdeen.

The exact address is given in the 1941 Jurors List:

Birthplace (country): 
Japan
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Ritsu WOOD (née UMETSU, aka Emily) [1889-1983]

Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2013-12-31 21:12
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Wood
Given: 
Ritsu
Maiden: 
Umetsu
Alias / nickname: 
Emily
Birth
Date: 
1889-08-15
Birthplace (town, state): 
Shimabara, near Nagasaki, Kyushu
Death
Date: 
1983-09-22

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.

Birthplace (country): 
Japan

Kennosuke NOMA [????-1947]

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-04-27 23:18
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Noma
Given: 
Kennosuke
Death
Date: 
1947-05-27
Cause of death: 
Hanging

He was head of the Japanese Gendarmerie during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.

Birthplace (country): 
Japan

Kiyoshi WATANABE (aka Uncle John) [1890-????]

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-04-20 11:36
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Watanabe
Given: 
Kiyoshi
Alias / nickname: 
Uncle John
Birth
Date: 
c.1890-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

A Japanese Lutheran Minister, present in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation. He provided help to the Allied prisoners in the POW and Interment camps, at great personal risk.

Birthplace (country): 
Japan
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