Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/indianunits.html lists Gilmore as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment.
It gives his date of death as 9 April 1942 in Bowen Road Hospital, and notes he had a 'Compound fracture skull'. This matches up with John Charter's diary entry for 21 Jul 1942 where he writes about a Charles Gilmour, who I believe is the same man:
| About a month ago quite a number of nurses came into camp from St Theresa’s Hospital (next to the Argyle Street British Officers Camp in Kowloon) and Bowen Road Military Hospital. Amongst them were Mrs Pritchard and Pamela. We were very glad to see them again, but not half so glad as Mr Pritchard, who had seen neither of them since war was declared. The last I had seen of Pam was on the Sunday before the war (this local war) at a rehearsal of ‘George and Margaret.’ She brought the sad news that Charles Gilmour (who was taking the part of Mr Garth Bander – ‘Poppet’ - in the same play) had died from the wound on his head. I was so sorry to hear this, especially as news had come in earlier that he was making an amazingly good recovery. Apparently he had a relapse. So both he and Tim Mackinlay out of the cast of 8 were killed. It was funny how I kept accidentally running across Charles during the war……he was in the armoured car division. |