He appears in these Jurors Lists as "Borinevitch, Valentin Gabriel" ...
1939: Salesman with Millington, Ld., living at Top Floor, 7 Homuntin Street, Ho Mun Tin
1940: Salesman with Office Appliance Co. Ld., living at 2 King's Terrace, Top floor, Kowloon.
1941: Assistant with Reiss, Bradley & Co., Ld., living at 9B Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.
He was a signalman in the HKVDC, shown at 2a in the photo below
He appears in the list of POWs:
| Flippance F | HKVDC | Major |
Details from http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/royalartillery.html which say that Major Hunt commanded the 1st Mountain Battery, and East Group of the Royal Artillery.
In December 1941 he was commanding officer of the Royal Army Service Corps in Hong Kong (see www.hongkongwardiary.com).
Duncan Tollan came to Hong Kong from Edinburgh with his wife, Rosina Wilson Cray Tollan and children in 1905. He arrived as the chief engineer of the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Co.. In 1925, the company was acquired by the Hong Kong Telephone Co. He remained with the Hong Kong Telephone Co. until his retirement in 1947.
The Tollans had the following children:
1. Elizabeth Whittaker b. 1901,
2. Anne Mackenzie b. 1903,
3. Rose b. 1905, d. 1919,
4. Duncan Leonard Gibson b. and d. 1907,
5. Lorna Margaret Printz b. 1911 and
Joseph Drewery was in the Prison Department and appointed Warder on 19 October 1931. He married Miss Guiomar Maria Remedios at the Registry on 28 December 1935. At the time, he was a Warder at Lai Chi Kok Prison.
He also served as a Private with the HKVDC in the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was taken Prisoner-of-War and later shipped to Japan. Details: Drewery, Joseph W. Lance Corp. 3737 (XD5).
His wife and their two children, Marcus (born in 1929) and Irene (born in 1933) were interned at Stanley Camp.
Source:
Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dockyard and resided on site.
He was a Private with the HKVDC during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. Corporal Fred Cullen died on 2 March 1945 and is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery.
Source
1. Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1
In December 1941, Rev. Bennett was the chaplain of the Royal Scots in Hong Kong.
More information: https://assets-global.website-files.com/578e2a2c6c449a8776ff311f/61828f…
At the time of the Japanese invasion in 1941 he was the Commodore, the senior officer of the Royal Navy, in Hong Kong.
More information: http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Alfred_Creighton_Collin…
He is listed in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) section of the Hong Kong War Diary website as "Haynes, Frank Henry W. Civilian Mst. Art. BRH K 27.10.43", with the note that he died of amoebic dysentery at the Bowen Road Hospital.
