Flt Lt Baugh escaped from Sham Shui Po POW Camp with Major Munro and Captain Trevor on 1 Feb 1942, but was later killed in an airplane crash. This information comes from http://www.rafcommands.com/database/awards/details.php?qnum=43524&qname…
WALVICK COTTAGE
The lengthy fax would arrive about once a week, sent to all cricketers of the Chinese University, announcing an upcoming match and asking if we could play. Sent by the captain David Gilkes, the Bursar, who didn’t use email. A few days later, we would receive another fax, listing the players and the admonition to dress in white “to intimidate the opposition”, a strategy which rarely worked.
RAF Kong Wei was listening post (listening to radio transmissions from mainland China), manned by the RAF in the 1950s.
The 'rest room' was here, with the D/F huts out on the paddy fields to the North and South of the road.
Joseph was posted to Hong Kong with the RAF. He worked on the development of radar. On 26 March 1946 was in an aircraft which crashed on Lantau Island. He is buried in Sai Wan Cemetery.
This extract from my Grandfather's memoirs covers his last posting with the RAF before being demobbed.
Rangoon was as deadly as ever but I was bucked by the thought of the Hong Kong posting. I waltzed into Postings as usual and there was my favourite Flight Sergeant, at his desk with his mug of char at his elbow. "Ah, you're back," said he, "have a cup of char." I parked myself and accepted his offer whilst the formalities of the posting were outlined.
I'm so pleased to have found this group! I come from Vancouver (which is practically a colony of Hong Kong), and I'm so excited to be planning my first visit to the island in November of this year. My grandfather was a pre-war mountaineer who joined the RAF in late 1941. He spent the next few years flying over Burma, plus 2 seasons running fitness and survival training to RAF pilots in Kashmir. Following the war, he delayed his return home to England in order to see a bit of the world, and volunteered for a 6-month posting to Hong Kong.
An interesting article starting on page 32 onwards to page 45 of this PDF covering the RAF’s arrival in Hong Kong in 1945
Most of the story has been told in various formats in previously published documents.
One map/diagram shows Ping Shan and Ka Tak far way from where they actually are..
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/research/RAF-Historical-Society-…
