Gillison, Walford

Walford Gillison was born in the Union Hospital in 1935 because his parents were London Missionary Society missionaries. Apart from a year in the U.K. in 1938 he lived in Wuhan during the Japanese occupation from 1939 until 1942. He was then interned in the occupied east part of China with all foreigners belonging to those countries at war with Japan since Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Hong Kong after December 1941. He was a prisoner of war with his parents and 636 other internees in a camp in the city of Yangzhou on the banks of the Grand Canal about 200 miles north of Shanghai, from March...