The "Glorious Dead"

That would be a good addition. The simplest way is to just type in the names as a list here, or is there anything more sophisticated you have in mind?

If you find them again, please add names in a comment here.

This BBC article says:

In the UK around six million men were mobilised, and of those just over 700,000 were killed. That's around 11.5%.

I expect a similar proportion of the Hong Kong men who went to fight would have died in the fighting. However conscription wasn't introduced in Hong Kong til 1918 (see https://gwulo.com/comment/40840#comment-40840), so a lower percentage of British men from Hong Kong likely fought than men of the same age who were living in the UK.

Unfortunately no, there aren't any names listed there.

Pulling together some of the many screen shots I've collected over time, and having a browse through - here's a start.  Interestingly, I've just come across a piece in 1919 about there being as yet no roll of honour. I'll try to post it.  In addition to this there's also the list of HK Police killed in action, in the CSP's reports for 1918 and 1919.  

I'm a little suspicious that most of those I've found have been gazetted officers ... 

Death	Name	Regiment	HK occup.
27 May 1915	T E S Robson		Taikoo Docks
24 July 1915	Lt. Kenneth Rowley Forde	2nd East Kent	HSBC (?)
2 June 1916	Ainslie Richards		Jardine Matthieson
1 July 1916	H E Victor	2nd Middlesex	HK Daily Press
1918	Lieut.Walter Smart	Machine Gun Corp	SCMP & NC Daily News Shanghai
1918	Lieut. Jasper Clark	Sutherland Highlanders	Standard Oil
1914	Lieut. D S Dodgson	RGA
1914	Lieut G P Shedden	RGA
1914	Capt Harry Sherwood Ranken VC	RAMC	(stationed at HK earlier)
26 Aug 1918	Lieut W H Stapleton	3rd Bat Bedfordshire, attached Royal Berkshires

No, I can't.  I give up

 

Hi Patricia,

Thanks for the first names. If you find other sources that aren't easy to post here, how about just jotting down the source (or link if they're onlline) in a comment here. Then anyone who's interested can follow them up.

Regards, David

Jill - don't get too focused on conscription - I really can't see that it had a huge impact on Hong Kong - in fact there was quite a lot of debate about whether it was needed in the first place.  The Military Service Commission which met between February and April 1917 was established almost as HK's first 'call to arms' - that is to say, part of its role was to counter the opinion that there wasn't a further need for men.  The Commission put out a call for men to come forward, on favourable terms, to enlist and  interviewed 125 men (aged 18-40) out of the 182 who had applied (most of those not interviewd had failed the medical).  Of these 125 it was found that 43 'could be spared' from the business of HK.  The principle of Imperial and Colonial need - men who were required to stay in the colony in order to keep it runnning, both administratively and as a trading centre - was applied.  Earlier in the war I think that men had to apply to the Governor for permission to enlist and leave HK ... even those in commerce and trade.  May noted that he'd had to refuse 'scores' of appications.  The Commission did note that younger men hadn't come forward in the numbers they were expecting - but from what they write, I think that had they done so, only another dozen or so would have left for Europe.  So with all that, I can't think that conscription actually found many recruits ... By the way, at the first Police Presentation after the War, the Claude Severn, admistering the colony in May's absence, commiserated with those officers who'd wanted to enlist but who had been refused.  What I haven't yet found is any report on the actual number of men (other than those in the Civil Establischment) who  went to war.   The report on the Commission can be found in the China Mail of 5th May 1917.  

Uploading screenshots seems to be utterly beyond my capabilities ... I was quite surprised that I was able to just paste the chart ... I haven't been able to 'paste' anything else!! 

Below are names of those on the First World War section of the Hong Kong Police Roll of Honour, a marble tablet currently on display in the Police Museum on Coombe Road, Mid-levels.

P.C.  25 Herbert G. Wakeford KILLED IN ACTION 16.5.16.

P.C.  27 Ernest G. Painting DO 1.7.16.

P.C.  52 Arthur Allchurch DO 1.7.16.

P.C. 125 Harold Wilson REPORTED MISSING ON 27.7.16.
PRESUMED DEAD ON THE 11.5.17.

P.C. 114 Peter Boyd Gardner KILLED IN AEROPLANE
ACCIDENT ON 4.12.16.

P.C. 124 Ernest F. Drury KILLED IN ACTION 17.2.17.

P.C. 155 Robert Edwards DO 30 4.17.

P.C. 120 Edward C. Sillis DO 1.8.17.

P.C.  81 John Delahunty DO 9.10.17.

P.C.  69 F. J. Singleton DIED OF INFLUENZA 2.11.18.

P.C. 127 A. E. Clarke DIED OF WOUNDS 15.5.19.

Hi Jill,

Patricia O's list dated 20.1. 2018 is as recorded on the marble roll of honour now on display in Police Museum and they are the names recroded in the 1918/1919 Annual Reports. (The names in her post dated 2017-07-02 are not Police Officers - I think she'll confirm that) FYI the marble memorial "went missing" for 40 years, from 1976 when the Police Recreaction Club was demolished until 2006, when it was found wrapped in cardboard in the basement of the Police Museum - long forgotten - but at least someone had thought about what to do with it. It must have moved around a bit as the Museum only opened at that location in the 1990s I recall.

I'll try to post my complete account of all of the men listed on that marble tablet for WWI and WWII.

Police Recreation Club

Roll of Honour

 

The two marble tablets contain the Roll of Honour of members of the Police Recreation Club who gave their lives during World War I and World War II.

 

Police sports teams, including cricket and lawn bowls, had existed for some time before the construction of the Police Recreation Club in Happy Valley. The Club was opened by the Governor, Claude Severn, CMG, on 3 May 1919, and stood on the site of what is now the Canal Road flyover, adjacent to the present Hong Kong Jockey Club Headquarters.

 

The Police Recreation Club was demolished in 1976 to make way for the flyover, and was eventually replaced by the Police Officer’s Club, in Causeway Bay, which was opened in 1984.

 

The Roll of Honour covers only members of the Police Recreation Club is split into two sections, the first for World War I and the second for World War II.

 

 

 

World War I

 

During World War I around 70 members of the Hong Kong Police volunteered for military service. Most were transported to the United Kingdom and served in Western Europe. A few (those with a knowledge of Urdu) are known to have joined Indian Army Regiments and served in East Africa.

 

The Roll of Honour for World War I lists 11 officers. Their details are as follows :-

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Herbert G. Wakeford	Police Constable 25	Lance Sergeant 15516	2nd Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps	17 May 1916	St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Loos
Ernest George Painting	Police Constable 27	Lance Corporal 17760	2nd Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps	1 July 1916	Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay
Arthur Allchurch	Police Constable 52	Rifleman 17759	2nd Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps	1 July 1916	Arras Memorial
Harold Wilson	Police Constable 125	Lance Corporal 15463	1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps	Reported Missing on 27 July 1916 Presumed Dead on 11 May 1917	Thievpal Memorial
Peter Boyd Gardner	Police Constable 114	Airman 1st Class 28923	Royal Flying Corps	Killed in aeroplane accident 4 December 1916	Currie Parish Churchyard
Ernest Frederick Drury MM	Police Constable 124	Serjeant 15465	1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps	17 February 1917	Thievpal Memorial
Robert Edwards	Police Constable 155	Corporal 17812	48th Squadron Royal Flying Corps	30 April 1917	Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery,  Saulty
Edward Charles Sillis	Police Constable 120	Private 6810	2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards	1 August 1917	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
John Delahunty	Police Constable 81	Private 10793	2nd Battalion Irish Guards	9 October 1917	Tyne Cot Memorial
F. J. Singleton	Police Constable 69	Serjeant 17803	No. 6 Aircraft Acceptance Park Royal Air Force	Died of influenza 2 November 1918	Glasgow Western Necropolis
A.E. Clarke	Police Constable 127	Unknown	Unknown	Died of wounds 15 May 1919	Unknown

 

 

World War II

 

Hong Kong was invaded by Japanese military forces on 8^th December 1941. The Japanese entered Hong Kong via its northern boundary with Shenzhen. The Japanese had occupied southern Guangdong Province since 1937.  The British forces surrendered on 25^th December 1941, after the Japanese forces had landed on Hong Kong Island, and occupied the eastern half of the island.  This building, which was then Wanchai Gap Police Station the stood in the middle of the front line at the time of surrender (which ran from Stewart Road in Wanchai, to Aberdeen on the south side of the island ) was evacuated after being damaged by shell fire on 19 December 1941.

 

During the period of hostilities the Hong Kong Police were designated as militia, by way of the Police (Militia Status) Bill 1941. Although the Force principally remained responsible for the maintenance of order within the civilian population, Police Officers fought and died together with British and Commonwealth military units, mainly in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island.

 

Hong Kong Police Officers were also present at the isolated pocket of defence at Stanley, and manned defence posts at Stanley Police Station and in front of Stanley Prison as Japanese forces advanced along the Stanley peninsula.

 

Several Police Officers captured by the Japanese when taking part in military operations were treated as Prisoners of War, and were not permitted to transfer to the civilian internment camp at Stanley.

 

The Police Recreation Club Roll of Honour lists 25 men, not all of whom Police Officers. Their details are as follows:-

 

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
George Alfred Hudson	Sergeant A38			12 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
J A Stevens (Recorded as Jack Leslie Stephens in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Served in HKP 1932 to 1937 Harbour Department	Corporal 3353	Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps	12 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Patrick Donohue	Sergeant A191			12 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Albert Leslie Hopkins	Inspector			15 December 1941	Stanley Military Cemetery
Albert Victor Baker	Inspector			15 December 1941	Stanley Military Cemetery
Henry Tilman (Recorded as Tillman in Commonwealth War Graves Records)		Serjeant	Hong Kong Dockyard Defence Corps	18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Adam Bone	Served in HKP 1934 to 1938 Inspector of Works, Grade III, Public Works Department	Serjeant 3224	4th Battery Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps	18 December 1941 ( Recorded as 24 December 1941 in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Stanley Military Cemetery
A Jessop	Retired Sergeant A166 Tai Koo Dockyard	Believed to be Lance Corporal John Edward Jessop	1st Company Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps	18 December 9141	Sai Wan Memorial
Thomas Alwyn Porritt	Lance Sergeant A92			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Albert Joseph Johnson	Sub-Inspector			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Frank Louis Willison	Lance Sergeant A107			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Thomas O’Connor	Inspector			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Edward George Post	Inspector			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Malcolm Kenneth Ross	Lance Sergeant A 149			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Richardson Barry Loxley Leslie	Lance Sergeant A106			26 December 9141	Hong Kong Cemetery Section 2
John Joseph Walsh	Sub-Inspector			4 March 1942	Stanley Military Cemetery
Peter Harry Loughlin	Sergeant A45			Lisbon Maru (Recorded as 2 October 1942 in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Sai Wan Memorial
William Campbell	Sergeant A68			Lisbon Maru (Recorded as 2 October 1942 in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Sai Wan Memorial
Hon. John Alexander  Fraser GC, MC and Bar			Defence Secretary Hong Kong Government. British Army Aid Group	29 October 1943	Stanley Military Cemetery
Walter Richardson Scott	Deputy Commissioner of Police		British Army Aid Group	29 October 1943	Stanley Military Cemetery
Michael Flaherty	Lance Sergeant A34			22 June 1944	Stanley Military Cemetery
Charles Henry Goodwin	Sub-Inspector			25 June 9144	Stanley Military Cemetery
Henry George Hallem (Recorded as Hallam in HKP Roll of Honour)	Inspector			16 July 1944	Sai Wan Memorial
Albert Edward Cary (Recorded as Carey in HKP Roll of Honour)	Inspector			13 December 1944	Stanley Military Cemetery
Yeung Hong kor	Unknown			10 December 1941	None known

 

Additional details are known of many of the WWII deaths. The brief circumstances are recorded below:-

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
George Alfred Hudson	Sergeant A38			12 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
J A Stevens (Recorded as Jack Leslie Stephens in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Served in HKP 1932 to 1937 Harbour Department	Corporal 3353	Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps	12 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Patrick Donohue	Sergeant A191			12 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial

 

 

Sergeant Hudson, Corporal Stephens and  Sergeant Donohue were killed at around 23.00 hrs on 12 December 1941, whilst aboard the Steam Launch Jeanette, which had been tasked to tow a barge of explosives from Green Island to the Star Ferry Pier in Central. The vessel was mistakenly fired upon by friendly military units situated at the vehicular ferry pier causing a massive explosion. Indian Police Constable B607 Santa Singh and Indian Police Constable B727 Waryam Singh, who were also on board and killed in the explosion, are included in the Hong Kong Police Roll of Honour.

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Albert Leslie Hopkins	Inspector			15 December 1941	Stanley Military Cemetery

 

Inspector Hopkins was killed in Central Police Station compound, Hollywood Road, as a result of aerial bombardment by a Japanese plane which dropped a stick of bombs in the area of Hollywood Road, Old Bailey and Caine Road, at around 16.00hrs on 15 December 1941. The complex also housed Police Headquarters which was later evacuated to the Gloucester Hotel.

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Albert Victor Baker	Inspector			15 December 1941	Stanley Military Cemetery

 

Inspector Baker was found shot dead at No. 3 Conduit Road.

 

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Henry Tilman (Recorded as Tillman in Commonwealth War Graves Records)		Serjeant	Hong Kong Dockyard Defence Corps	18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial

 

The South China Morning Post for Tuesday 18^th September 1945 states that Serjeant Tillman was killed whist in charge of the ammunition ship Moa Lee.

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Adam Bone	Served in HKP 1934 to 1938 Inspector of Works, Grade III, Public Works Department	Serjeant 3224	4th Battery Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps	18 December 1941 ( Recorded as 24 December 1941 in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Stanley Military Cemetery

 

Serjeant Bone was an Inspector of Works, Grade III, Public Works Department. No further details of his death are known.

 

 

 

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
A Jessop	Retired Sergeant A166 Tai Koo Dockyard	Believed to be Lance Corporal John Edward Jessop	1st Company Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps	18 December 9141	Sai Wan Memorial
Thomas Alwyn Porritt	Lance Sergeant A92			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Albert Joseph Johnson	Sub-Inspector			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Frank Louis Willison	Lance Sergeant A107			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Thomas O’Connor	Inspector			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Edward George Post	Inspector			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Malcolm Kenneth Ross	Lance Sergeant A 149			18 December 1941	Sai Wan Memorial
Peter Harry Loughlin	Sergeant A45			Lisbon Maru (Recorded as 2 October 1942 in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Sai Wan Memorial
William Campbell	Sergeant A68			Lisbon Maru (Recorded as 2 October 1942 in Commonwealth War Graves Records)	Sai Wan Memorial

 

 

The deaths of ex-Sergeant Jessop, Lance Sergeant Porritt, Sub-Inspector Johnson, Lance Sergeant Willison, Inspector O’Connor, Inspector Post, Lance Sergeant Ross and Sergeant Loughlin are all connected by the fact that all were stationed in eastern Hong Kong Island at or close to the location where Japanese forces landed on the night of  18 December 1941.

 

 

Ex-Sergeant Jessop was employed as a watchman at the Tai Koo Dockyard, on the site of the current Tai Koo Shing, and was also a member of 1^st Company Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, which was stationed in the area of Quarry Bay on 18 December 1941. At 19.30 hrs on 18 December 1941 he went to the charge room of Quarry Bay Police Station and reported the landing of Japanese forces at the dockyard. Nothing further is known about his death. This marble tablet is his only known memorial. He is not included in Commonwealth War Grave Commission records.

 

On receiving the report from Jessop, Inspector O’Connor and Inspector Post formed up all available officers into two squads, and with fixed bayonets proceeded to King’s Road where fighting was in progress between the Japanese forces and 5/7^th Rajputs who were stationed in the area. The party was attacked and Lance-Sergeant Porritt was seriously wounded by a hand grenade. They retreated to Quarry Bay Police Station, but Inspector O’Connor and Inspector Post were missing and were never seen again. Indian Police Constable B560 Joginder Singh is believed to have been killed in the same encounter. Indian Police Constable B388 Kala Singh, and Indian Police Constable B478 Arjan Singh were also wounded at Quarry Bay on 18 December 1941 and later died from their injuries. The Indian officers are included in the Hong Kong Police Roll of Honour.

 

Having consulted with Colonel Rawlinson Commanding Officer of the 5/7^th Rajputs, Sub-Inspector Johnson gave instructions for the remaining officers to proceed up Mount Parker Road to Sanatorium Gap, in the direction of Stanley. The injured Lance Sergeant Porritt was carried by Lance Sergeant Ross and Lance Sergeant A78 John Campbell, accompanied by a number of other officers, including Sergeant A19 Joseph Hill, Lance Sergeant A175 I.R. Jack , Sergeant Loughlin, and Lance Sergeant Willison.

 

Sub-Inspector Johnson remained on the lower end Mount Parker Road and was killed fighting, together with the Indian soldiers stationed there. Lance Sergeant Willison lost contact with the main group on Mount Parker Road and was recorded to have been shot and killed by a Japanese ambush party. Lance Sergeant Ross is also believed to have been killed on Mount Parker Road.

 

At about 04.00hrs on 19 December 1941 most of the remaining officers were captured at Sanatorium Gap. The wounded Lance Sergeant Porritt was lead away and was never seen again. Sergeant Hill, Lance Sergeant A78 John Campbell and Sergeant Loughlin were first sent to Argyle Street Camp, and then to the military Prisoner of War Camp at Sham Shui Po. They were later joined at Sham Shui Po by Sergeant A63 F. Woodhead, and Sergeant A68 William Campbell. The Police Officers requested to be transferred to the civilian internment camp at Stanley. This was refused by the Japanese authorities as they had been captured when fighting.

 

On 28 September 1942 the five Police Officers, Sergeant Hill, Lance Sergeant A78 John Campbell, Sergeant Loughlin, Sergeant Woodhead, and Sergeant A68 William Campbell, were amongst over 1,800 Prisoners of War loaded onto the Japanese troop transport, the Lisbon Maru, for transportation to Japan. On October 1st 1942, the American submarine Grouper fired six torpedoes at the Lisbon Maru, off Shanghai. Five of the Mk 14 torpedoes either passed under the target or failed to detonate, but one exploded against the stern, bringing the ship to a standstill. Grouper immediately came under attack from patrol boats and aircraft, and departed the scene.  700 Japanese soldiers were taken off the stricken vessel, leaving the Prisoners of War locked down in the holds. When the vessel sank over 1,000 Prisoners of War died including, Sergeant Loughlin and Sergeant A68 William Campbell.

 

[The above events are reconstructed from information contained in the Police War Diary provided by Lance Sergeant A175 I.R. Jack, who survived the retreat up Mount Parker Road on 18/19 December 1941 and reached Stanley, and a letter to the Commissioner of Police written in April 1946, by  Sergeant A19 Joseph Hill who survived both the events in Quarry Bay and the sinking of the Lisbon Maru.]

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Richardson Barry Loxley Leslie	Lance Sergeant A106			26 December 9141	Hong Kong Cemetery Section 2

 

Lance Sergeant Leslie was serving at Upper Levels Police Station. On 26 December 1941, the day after the surrender, he was sent to respond a robbery in progress at No. 6 Hospital Road. He was shot dead. Leslie’s sister, Miss E.S.R Leslie, was a nursing sister at Queen Mary Hospital. She attended his burial in the grounds of Upper Levels Police Station. His body was exhumed after the war. He was re-interned in a Commonwealth War Grave in Section 2 of the Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley.

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
John Joseph Walsh	Sub-Inspector			4 March 1942	Stanley Military Cemetery
Michael Flaherty	Lance Sergeant A34			22 June 1944	Stanley Military Cemetery
Charles Henry Goodwin	Sub-Inspector			25 June 9144	Stanley Military Cemetery
Albert Edward Cary (Recorded as Carey in HKP Roll of Honour)	Inspector			13 December 1944	Stanley Military Cemetery

 

Following the surrender, civilians considered to be enemy nationals by the Japanese authorise were interned in Stanley Internment Camp. This included the Gazetted Officers of the Hong Kong Police and most of A and E Contingents. They remained in the camp until the liberation of Hong Kong in August 1945. Sub-Inspector Walsh, Lance Sergeant Flaherty, Sub-Inspector Goodwin and Inspector Carey died from illness, during the period of their detention.

 

 

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Hon. John Alexander  Fraser GC, MC and Bar			Defence Secretary Hong Kong Government. British Army Aid Group	29 October 1943	Stanley Military Cemetery
Walter Richardson Scott	Deputy Commissioner of Police		British Army Aid Group	29 October 1943	Stanley Military Cemetery

 

During 1943 the Japanese authorities began intensive investigations into the activities of the British Army Aid Group, which operated from unoccupied China, and its agents and volunteers who operated in Hong Kong and within Stanley Internment Camp. As a result a number of trials were held by the military authorities and 33 persons were sentenced to death by beheading, in mass execution held near the waterfront close to St. Stephens College, on 29 October 1943. Those executed included military officers, government officials and civilian volunteers. The Hon. John Fraser was the Defence Secretary of the Hong Kong Government. Deputy Commissioner Walter Scott was not the only Police Officer implicated during the investigation. Sergeant Frank Roberts was also convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, and spent the rest of the war imprisoned in Guangzhou.

 

The following members of the Police Reserve who were volunteers for the British Army Aid Group were also executed on 29 October 1943, Sub-Inspector Preston Wong Siu-pun, Sergeant R83 Yeung Sau-tak, Sub-Inspector Chan Ping-fan and Sub-Inspector Cleveland Elroy Chang Yit.

 

David Louie Fook-wing, Assistant Superintendent of Police (Reserve) had earlier  died whilst under interrogation in May 1943. He was posthumously awarded the King’s Police Medal for Bravery. These five officers and other members of the Police Reserve are included in the Hong Kong Police Roll of Honour.

 

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Henry George Hallem (Recorded as Hallam in HKP Roll of Honour)	Inspector			16 July 1944	Sai Wan Memorial

 

Inspector Hallam, is believed to have left Hong Kong by boat on leave to return to the United Kingdom on leave in early December 1941. He died at Muntok Internment Camp, Banka Island, Java on 16 July 1944. It seems likely that he was in Malaya/Singapore at the time of the surrender there, and was subsequently interned in Indonesia.

 

Name	Police Rank	Military Rank	Unit	Inscribed Date of Death	Memorial
Yeung Hong kor	Unknown			10 December 1941	None known

 

Mr. Yeung Hon kor was an employee of the PRC. He died at the Club during bombing of Hong Kong Island on 10 December 1941. [Information from Mr. Keith Lomas 2008.]

Hi Jill,

For WWII those listed in the memorial  are just the deceased members of the Police Recreation Club. There are more than 100 police officers on the official roll of honour for WWII, who died during the invasion/battle or occupation (and those on board the Lisbon Maru).

Hi Happy Valley,

Thank you for providing the invaluable information. I happen to be doing some research on the roll of honour (on and off for the past few years). Do you mind letting us know the sources of your information, and whether you have published your findings. Could I have talked to you via e-mail before? Thank you.

Yes I think you did contact me before by email.

A good read of Hong Kong's involvment in World War 1. HK Telegraph 9 March 1940 refers. See here and scroll to Page 9 

Issue 1172 of the Police Force magazine Offbeat has an article 'Force honours fallen officers'.  It includes a photograph of the two marble tablets (mentioned above in this discussion) on which the Rolls of Honour of the two World Wars were inscribed.  The marble tablets are in the Police Museum in which visitor photography is prohibited.

The Hong Kong Cricket Club bronze 'Roll of Honour 1914-1919' has the following names:

H.M.C. Arthur, B.F. Chapman, D.G. Cheeseman, Jasper Clark, C.C.F. Cunninigham, R. Sydenham Dixon, P. Delaunay, A.C.E. Elborough, K.R. Forde, L. Gull, H.I. Jones, R.G. Munro, P. Richardson, P.H. Robinson, A.D. Shewan, R.A. Stokes, C.N.G. Walker, A. Whitmarsh, W.H. Viveash

Several of the these are listed on the HK Club Roll above.

Ian

 

A memorial plaque to William Howelll Stapleton hangs in the chapel of St. Andrew's Church. He was killed in action at Carnoy, France on 26 August 1918. Aged 20 years.

(1) Gresson - Killed in action in Flanders on 25 May 1915. John Edward Gresson of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., Lieutenant 3rd Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. 

Source: Hong Kong Daily Press 1 June 1915

Stumbled across a list of fallen soldiers in the Great War mentioned in the unveiling ceremony of the War Memorial Cross in the grounds of St. John's Cathedral. The list appears to be complete. See p.4 China Mail dated 31 January 1921 

A photo of the War Memorial Cross (first generation) can be seen here.