Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Philip notes that Gray was "RNVR, Flag Lt to Commodore Collinson. He had worked before the war as an Accountant in Shanghai."
The earliest mention of him I've found in Hong Kong so far is his appointment to be an acting sub-lieutenant in the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, effective 20th December, 1939. (See item 31 in the Government Gazette for 12th Jan 1940.)
Comments
Cecil Jesse Austen GRAY 9/7/1908 - 19/12/1968
Information on list of UK Allied Prisoners of War Cecil Jesse Austen Gray born 9 July 1908 at 64 The Bluff Yokohama Japan son of Jesse Esdale Gray and Winifred Leila Austen. Served in RNVR 1939 - 1945. His parents and brother were also allied prisoners of war. His mother was born in Japan and died in Loughton Essex in 1968. His father died in 1946 in Shanghai..
From Marriages of UK Nationals Abroad 22 May 1934 Kiangsu China Cecil Jesse Austen Gray age 26 bachelor accountant Shanghai Race Club married Dorothy Myrtle Beldon (1915 - 1962) Her will, made in her married name Gray, stated that she was "a single woman" She died in Wandsworth 30 April 1962.
18 June 1940 Cecil Jesse Austen Gray marrried Kathleen Kent Downton in Hong Kong (1914 - 2001) She died in Leicester) She married Eric A Butchart in 1960 in Leicester.
1960 Cecil Jesse Austen Gray married Phyllis Parrott in Hampstead
Cecil Jesse Austen Gray died 17 December 1968 aged 60 in Hampstead