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Haruo FUKUCHI (aka 福地春男) [1899-1953]

Submitted by Alan Ho on Wed, 12/20/2023 - 11:33

George BRASS [????-????]

Submitted by moddsey on Tue, 05/30/2023 - 07:18

Served at RAF Kai Tak as Leading Aircraftman (LAC) from October 1938. Captured on 25 December 1941 and later sent to Sham Shui Po POW Camp. Sailed on the MV Tatuta Maru for Japan in January 1943 and subsequently died in camp. 

A photo and article on George Brass appeared in "Gau Lung", official magazine of RAF Kai Tak in March 1969 and can be read here

Cecil Jesse Austen GRAY [1908-1968]

Submitted by David on Tue, 11/13/2018 - 15:30

Philip notes that Gray was "RNVR, Flag Lt to Commodore Collinson. He had worked before the war as an Accountant in Shanghai."

The earliest mention of him I've found in Hong Kong so far is his appointment to be an acting sub-lieutenant in the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, effective 20th December, 1939. (See item 31 in the Government Gazette for 12th Jan 1940.)

Ian H F KERR [1923-2015]

Submitted by SUZE 40 on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 05:20

Lived in Taipo 1941 to 1942 . Hong Kong Uni student. Son of Stanley and Vera Kerr. Japanese speaker

Yoshino MAYCOCK [c.1881-1952]

Submitted by jill on Sat, 07/15/2017 - 01:32

Yoshino Maycock was the wife of John Henry Maycock. She returned to her family in Japan on the outbreak of war and had no news of the fate of her husband or her Hong Kong-born sons. She was finally reunited with her husband and surviving sons in England two years after the war had ended. Her son Tommy, who had been interned in Stanley, had survived the war but had meanwhile died of TB. Yoshino's remains were interred in the grave of her son Arthur in the Protestant Cemetery. The inscription on it is recorded in Patricia Lim's website: