George Byrne, Professor of Chemistry at Hong Kong University, suffers a fatal heart attack while grinding rice flour for the cake for his sixtieth birthday. He never believed he would survive internment.
His wife Ethel is also in Stanley, and in early 1945 she will later have to bear the second blow of learning of the death of her son Brian, a former arts student at Hong Kong University, in action in Burma.
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Peter Cunich, A History of the University of Hong Kong, Volume 1, 2012, 408.
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