Son of Captain James Climie.  In October 1940 FDR ordered all dependents evacuated.  Leaving in mid-November 1940 on the SS Mariposa were:

Mrs A H Turnage, Mrs Lillie M Nickerson William N Best III, Miss Lilian Nickerson Best, Colonel W N Best, Mrs Herman R Anderson, Robert H anderson Mrs Edwin P McCauley, Mrs Paul Drake and Shirley Ann and Paul Drake Jr, Mrs James R Hester and Joan Hester, Mrs James F Climie with James Rudolph and Joanne Fraser Climie, Mrs Norman C Bates, Mrs August Olaguez, Mrs Norman H Jungers, Mrs Orville E Rehm, Mrs Oscar N Edmunds, Mrs Alfred E H Ruth with Shirley Ann, Alfred Ernest jr, Ruth Vivian, and Elsa Oswandel Ruth.

On the Chaumont were Mrs Hewitt D Adams, Mrs William A Lee, Mrs James P Drummond and Dale and Eloise Margaret Drummond, Mrs Paul McKenzie, Mrs Guy W Paulk, Mrs Spry O Claytor.

On a Japanese ship was Mrs Milton H Cooper. (Above names in the Dec 1940 issue of the Peiping Marine.)

Some children of Marines were still in China in December 1941.  Either the mothers were not yet US citizens or the marriage had taken place after November of 1940.  Alan Sydow was allowed by the Japanese to marry  Iris after his capture in Tientsin, before the unit was sent to Woosung.  Michael Somers and Randall Retzke were interned with their mothers in 1943.  Somers is mentioned on page 102 of From China Marine to Jap POW.

Peking/Tientsin Publications 1940-1941

The North China Marine