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Frederick Solomon CULLEN (aka Fred) [1889-1945]

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 12/15/2024 - 01:13

Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong Kowloon & Whampoa Dockyard and resided on site.

He was a Private with the HKVDC during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. Corporal Fred Cullen died on 2 March 1945 and is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery.

Source

1. Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

James Percival WHITHAM (aka Jimmy) [1907-1942]

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 00:27

James Percival Whitham appears in the 1941 Jurors List as Acting Branch Manager of Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada. He married Beatrice Lenora Brouwer and they later had a baby boy, Jonathan G. Whitham (1941-1944) born on 30 November 1941 at Matilda Hospital.

During the Battle of Hong Kong, Whitham was a member of the HKVDC and had been transferred to the Middlesex Company on 17 December 1941 as a lieutenant. He was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941.