Everything tagged: POW

Joseph Drewery was in the Prison Department and appointed Warder on 19 October 1931. He married Miss Guiomar Maria Remedios at the Registry on 28 December 1935. At the time, he was a Warder at Lai Chi Kok Prison.

He also served as a Private with the HKVDC in the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was taken Prisoner-of-War and later shipped to Japan. Details: Drewery, Joseph W. Lance Corp. 3737 (XD5).

His wife and their two children, Marcus (born in 1929) and Irene (born in 1933) were interned at Stanley Camp.

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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.

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

In December 1941, Rev. Bennett was the chaplain of the Royal Scots in Hong Kong.

More information: https://assets-global.website-files.com/578e2a2c6c449a8776ff311f/61828f…

At the time of the Japanese invasion in 1941 he was the Commodore, the senior officer of the Royal Navy, in Hong Kong.

More information: http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Alfred_Creighton_Collin…

He is listed in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) section of the Hong Kong War Diary website as "Haynes, Frank Henry W. Civilian Mst. Art. BRH K 27.10.43", with the note that he died of amoebic dysentery at the Bowen Road Hospital.

Birth & death dates from Ancestry.co.uk

On 24 Feb 1941 he married Beryl Daisy Fair at St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong. (Source: Carl Smith Card 142063, which noted Skipwith was a Captain in the Royal Artillery.)

Entry on the Hong Kong War Diary website, under 'HMS Moth':

Creer, Reginald Charles [130] Commander RAN

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.

In the 1938 Jurors List, Felix Frederick Arthur Dunnett worked as a clerk for Lowe, Bingham & Matthews. He married  an American woman, Jennie Paula White whose father, Claude Ellsworth White is mentioned here. The Dunnetts had a son, Michael born in November 1940.

• Surgeon-Commander, Royal Navy , 1941 (1) (2)
• The Principal Medical Officer of Hong Kong Royal Naval Hospital , 1941
• FEPOW Liberation Questionnaire : Became a prisoner of war and was interned in Hong Kong Argyle St. Camp - POW Camp 'N' (1942 - 1944), Japan Shinagawa POW Camp (1944 - 1945)