Commenced German lessons with Scott A/S.P. ((Believed to be Walter Scott - see comments below))
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Commenced German lessons with Scott A/S.P. ((Believed to be Walter Scott - see comments below))
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If my memory is correct this
If my memory is correct this was Walter Scott who was executed on October 29, 1943. He was Deputy Commissioner of Police, so A/S.P probably = Assistant Supervisor Police or similar. Or S could be a misreading for C.
Walter Scott
Thanks Brian.
I also had an email from Martin heyes confirming the identity:
A/SP means Assistant Superintendent of Police.
Scott was a Police officer in the Camp.
Scott gets several mentions in Wright-Nooth's book Prisoner of the turnip heads, eg on page 101:
"... Walter Scott (the DCP) and Booker (an ASP)."
Maybe Jones didn't know Scott's correct rank?
Regards, David
There was another policeman
There was another policeman called Scott (J. F.) in camp, but I think that Jones's entry for July 5, 1942 confirms the identification: a week after the June 28 arrests, when it must have seemed probable Scott wasn't going to be returning any time soon, Jones took a German grammar from Scott's room.
As well as Wright-Nooth, Li Shu-Fan and Dorothy Jenner mention Scott, and he comes across as a level-headed and personally likeable man.
Scott
Assistant Superintendent means he was a Cadet Officer. These were usually university educated personnel who rotated between senior posts in the colonies, often including spells with police forces. Another interesting example of the genre was PPJ Wodehouse, brother of novelist PG Wodehouse, who commanded the HK water police in the 1920s, and also held other senior HK govt. positions. Their father was a magistrate in HK.