Colin McEwan Diary: 8.12.1941 – 20.1.1942
Brief notes: 1.7.1942 -14.11.1942 (sometimes illegible)
(Lawrence Tsui remarks in Red)
Pop’s Diary – last days inHK 1941
(Captain Colin McEwan was SOE & later BAAG Field Operations Group (FOGS) with Ronald Holmes, Maxwell Holroyd, Francis Lee, Vincent Yeung, Al Wong & Osler Thomas)
(There appear to be 10 pages missing from the original)
"Captain White was one of two officers who for 12 months ran an evasion and intelligence post in western Kwangtung and for most of this time the post was isolated behind the enemy lines. In May 1944 a sudden enemy invasion of the area necessitated a rapid evacuation of the post and the safety of the Chinese staff and all our records on that occasion was solely due to the bravery and cool-headedness of Captain White. With the Chinese officials in a panic and amidst torrential summer rains, Captain White moved the whole party away 20 miles to safety and then immediately set up overland com
Over 2 years faithful service as Wireless Operator at BAAG Forward Post. Citation: by Colonel Ride
My grandfather, Mohamed Ahsan, came to Hong Kong in approx 1921, aged 14. He studied at Ellis Kadoorie School for 2 years, and then went onto Queen’s College. Once he graduated he obtained a job as a Clerk at the General Post Office. His brother Mohamed Yousif joined him at the GPO shortly after.
BAAG Rolll of Honour.
Ex Hongkong Police. BAAG Roll of Honour. ,
Lindsay Ride: "V V Illin, late of the Hongkong Police, was serving under my command in the BAAG in China during the war, and was killed in an airoplane accident in Kunming in December 1944 whilst takiing off on a secret operation. His body was identified by one of my officers and he was buried in Kunming, butr since the war his body has been brought to Hongkong for re-interment".
Re-interred at Saiwan Bay Military Cemetery, Hongkong.
Arrested 27.4.43 at 1200 hrs.
BAAG Roll of Honour
BAAG Roll of Honour.
Fung Him was a member of a Field Intelligence Group operating in enenmy-occupied Hongkong in 1944. Fung Him was jailed and was subsequently executed with his colleague Chan King.
BAAG Roll of Honour
Roll of Honour in Hongkong City Hall Garden. of Remembrance
BAAG Roll of Honour.
