Everything tagged: HKVDC

He was a Private in the HKVDC.

In 1941 he was a Captain in the HKVDC.

Annie Archibald Thom worked as a secretary in the Cuban Consulate. She was also in the Nursing Detachment of the HKVDC.

Agnes Lamond Flippance was born on 27 April 1893. Unable to verify but appears to have died in Willesden, Middlesex in 1953.

She married Frederick Flippance in St. Andrew's Church, Penang on 2 June 1932. Agnes followed her husband to Hong Kong in 1938 when he was appointed Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department.

Agnes enlisted in the HKVDC, Nursing Detachment and was attached to St. Albert's Hospital, Rosary Hill prior to the fall of Hong Kong. 

Dates and full name taken from his gravestone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235557015/edmund-symlloy-lyen#view-photo=242556220

His entry on the DBS School Register:

There was also an Oswald Lyen registered that year, most likely Edmund's brother.

His entries in the 1940 Jurors List:

and the list of casualties:

He is listed at http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/hkvdc.html as Company Sergeant Major under Corps Signals for the Volunteers:

It gives his cause of death in the POW camp as 'Avitaminosis', or vitamin deficiency.

Studied at Diocesan Boys' School. 

Married Irene Eleanor Gittins at St. Andrew's Church on 10 May 1939. China Mail of the same day refers.

A bombardier in the HKVDC. Killed in action on 18 December 1941. His grave is in the Stanley Military Cemetery.

Before the war Leslie Millington was employed in Hong Kong as a Revenue Officer in the Import and Export Department.

On Sunday 7 December 1941, following the declaration of a State of Emergency in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC) was mobilised, in which Leslie Millington and his brother Harry were both sergeants serving in the No 1 gun battery.

The 1941 Jurors List shows him as:

He fought in December 1941 with the Volunteers, and was killed on 25th December.

Mentioned in the list of casualties: