Ernest Hillas WILLIAMS [1899-1965]

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Ernest Hillas
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Williams
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Male
Status
Deceased
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Ireland
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Ernest Hillas Williams was from a Church of Ireland family from Cork (Eire). He entered the Colonial Civil Service as an administrator, eventually becoming Puisne Judge and then Assistant Attorney General.

He was a sergeant in the HKVDC, imprisoned first in Shamshuipo and then Innoshima Camp (Japan).

After the war he became Chief Justice of the British Borneo Territories.

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