Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Arnhem writes:
He was born in 1900 and arrived in Hong Kong during the first world war.
Jack Brown was appointed Revenue Officer in the dept of Imports and Exports in 1921 in the British Colonial Civil Service. Not sure where he lived. Left HK in 1949.
The 1939 Blue Book lists a John William Macintyre Brown as Senior Revenue Officer, and notes he'd been promoted on 1st Jan. See:
http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/b1939/51939018.pdf
Tony Banham's website has an entry for "Brown, John William Signalman 3866" on the "Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps" page that might be the same person:
Photos that show this Person
1922
Comments
Jack Brown, Signalman
Jack's son in law sent this photo, and says that Jack owned several motorcycles:
That would fit with a post as a Signalman in the HKVDC, as the Signals group included motorcycle despatch riders.
I don't see him listed on the 1941 photo:
http://gwulo.com/node/18542
He may be in the 1939 photo:
http://gwulo.com/node/17124
Arnhem, please can you tell us any more about Jack's war years?
Regards, David
Chief Preventative Officer Hong Kong Revenue.
'Jack' was a prisioner of war at Shamshipo Camp. He left Hong Kong in 1949 and died in Australia in 1974.