Identification card/work permit photo taken in Shanghai of Pamela Orchin in 1942. Her parents, ...

Identification card/work permit photo taken in Shanghai of Pamela Orchin in 1942. Her parents, Alfred Cecil 'Copper' Orchin and his wife Agnes ('Peggie'), had moved to China from England in 1920 after her father accepted a job offer from a friend whose father ran a firm in Dairen in China. They settled in Dairen with their son Douglas (who died aged two) and Pamela was born in 1921; another son, James Michael was born in 1927. By then the fanily had moved to Tsingtao. Pamela was educated at the Catholic Inland Missionary School at Chefoo, and sent to the Leicester Collegiate School for Girls in England in 1935 to finish her education. She returned to China in 1937 and took a clerical job in Shanghai. Her family was placed under house arrest in Tsingtao by the Japanese in December 1941, and allowed to repatriate to England from Shanghai in August 1942, when Pamela rejoined them, but they missed their boat. As a result they became internees, housed at the Columbia Country Club until April 1943, and at the Lunghwa Civil Assembly Area (an internment camp) until the end of the war. Pamela died of malnutrition on 16 December 1944. After the end of the war the family returned to England; Alfred Cecil died on 22 April 1959, having never really recovered from the ordeal; Peggie died in 1995, aged 98, and Michael married and emigrated with his family to Australia in 1971.