John Johnstone Paterson was a tai-pan of Jardine Matheson & Co. and a member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
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During the Battle of Hong…
During the Battle of Hong Kong, he commandeered the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps' Special Guard Company known as the Hugheseliers, after its founder A.W. Hughes.
Many of the recruits were older British men who had fought in World War I and the Boer War. The company was tasked with defending the North Point Power Station and was one of the few to survive the Japanese attack.
Paterson became a prisoner of war during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and was detained at Shamshuipo Camp and Argyle Street Camp.
After the war, J.J. Paterson settled in Nairobi, Kenya, where he died in 1971.
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