Jessie Macdonald married Adam Holland on 25th June 1914 in Glasgow, Scotland. She had attended grammar school on a scholarship and wanted to train to become a teacher. She was also an accomplished artist. In 1915 she had her first child, Isobel Morrison Holland; in 1917 Alistair Wilson Holland was born; and in 1919 or 1920 her third child Joan Macdonald Holland was born. <Read more ...>
Daisy Joyce came to Hong Kong in March 1940 as a biologist for the Education Department.
During the hostilities of December 1941 she was an auxillary nurse at the Emergency Hospital in La Salle College (Kowloon).
She was interned in Stanley and created a well-known visual record: the Day Joyce Sheet. This was an embroidered sheet, hidden between the rugs on her bed, which contained coded memorials of internee names and events.
