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Thanks once again to annpake for the biographical details of the Young family. As mentioned in George Gerrard's diary of 10 April 1943, Bob Young received a letter from his wife to say that she had gone from Victoria to Toronto, having been stuck in Victoria for 18 months with her children and with two other Hong Kong wives, Mrs John Fleming (Kitty) and Mrs Harry Penn (Irene). All three had been hoping to join their husbands in Hong Kong in 1940 just before the evacuation took place. As usual, the letter had taken a long time to arrive.

Wife of John Fleming, Chief Accountant of Lowe, Bingham & Matthews. Their marriage took place in Hong Kong on 7 July 1927. Mrs. John Fleming is referred to in the diary entry of George Gerrard 10 April 1943 as being in Toronto, but I'm not sure that this is the same person. I had thought that Kitty Fleming and her children had stayed in Scotland during the war. John Fleming himself was interned in Stanley, having returned alone from home leave according to my recollection. The Flemings had three children, Elizabeth, Marion and Quentin.

Born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Married Robert Morrison in 1925 and gave birth to daughter Elsy in 1926. Emigrated to HK in 1928 and lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, HK Dockyard.

Evacuated to Brisbane with daughter during WW2

Emigrated to UK in 1960s

Paternal great grandmother of author

Daughter of Robert Morrison and Margaret McColm Morrison

Born in Glasgow, emigrated to HK in 1928

Married Louis Colmans and had 4 x children

Lived at 9 Braga Circuit, HK

Evacuated to Brisbane with her mother Margaret during WW2

1954 - lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Kowloon Dock (Marriage Cert)

Emigrated to Southend on Sea, Essex in 1967

Author's Paternal Grandmother

Interned at Sham Shui Po camp during WW2, Corporal in the No 2 Company (Scottish) HKVDC.

Boilermaker by trade, Foreman at HK & Whampoa Shipyard. Lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Hong Kong Dockyard

Wife - Margaret Malcolm (nee Haugh)

Daughter - Elsy Sharp

Emigrated to Hong Kong on 14 Sept 1928, moved back to the UK in the 1960s.

Paternal great grandfather of author

T Drummond Hunter OBE (he doesn't seem to have used the full name 'Thomas').

Details from his obituary in The Herald.

The IWM has a recording of an interview with him.

Entry in the list of casualties:

Entry in the 1941 Jurors List: 

Robert Fraser Forbes was married to the daughter of Edwin Henry and Celestina Summers, whose name I haven't been able to discover. He appears in the Jurors List as working for Mustard & Co. His address is given as 7 Aimai Villas, Kowloon, which was also an address of E.H. Summers.

John Thomson was a photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of China and Hong Kong in the 1860s and early 1870s.  

The following is an extract from an article published on the BBC website on 3 October 2021, "The pioneering Scots photographer who captured China":