Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
He's listed at http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/ under '40 Fortress Company, RE':
| Holliday, Donald Lieutenant 129816 Royal Engineers (att 40Coy) K Dec 19 |
I believe he's the 'Mickey' who was fiancé to the nurse, Ms. Brenda Morgan, who was killed by Japanese bombing.
Joan Whiteley's diary entry for 16 Dec 1941 reads:
| A Tuesday. Brenda was killed at St Alberts. Sometime between this day and the following Sat. Mickey also was killed. |
Brian Edgar has this note in his Chronology entry for 14 Dec 1941:
| Susannah Hoe states that [Brenda Morgan] was a Canadian military nurse killed by shelling. According to John Harris she was from Nottingham and was killed by bombing. Harris also says that her fiancee, his flatmate Micky Holliday, a sapper, became 'unhinged' as a result and five days later went charging to his death along Wong Nei Chong Road, brandishing a revolver and in the company of several other Sappers. |