He is listed at http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/hkvdc.html as Company Sergeant Major under Corps Signals for the Volunteers:
| Rathmell, Richard CSM 2231 K 26.10.42 |
It gives his cause of death in the POW camp as 'Avitaminosis', or vitamin deficiency.
Before the war Leslie Millington was employed in Hong Kong as a Revenue Officer in the Import and Export Department.
On Sunday 7 December 1941, following the declaration of a State of Emergency in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC) was mobilised, in which Leslie Millington and his brother Harry were both sergeants serving in the No 1 gun battery.
I am the Nephew of Pte. Percy Chittenden of the Middlesex Regiment whose war diary was found in 1942 by the Reed family in the garden of 8, Broadwood Road, Leighton Hill. It was kindly returned by post back to his family in London by a B. Reed ( pos. Mrs.). I would if possible very much to contact any living member of the Reed family to express my gratitude for doing that. I know that the family suffered great loss at that time. My uncle survived the sinking of the Lisbon Maru and was a POW at Kobe in Japan. He returned home in 1945 to find his diary waiting for him.
He appears in these Jurors Lists as "Borinevitch, Valentin Gabriel" ...
1939: Salesman with Millington, Ld., living at Top Floor, 7 Homuntin Street, Ho Mun Tin
1940: Salesman with Office Appliance Co. Ld., living at 2 King's Terrace, Top floor, Kowloon.
1941: Assistant with Reiss, Bradley & Co., Ld., living at 9B Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.
He was a signalman in the HKVDC, shown at 2a in the photo below
He appears in the list of POWs:
| Flippance F | HKVDC | Major |
Details from http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/royalartillery.html which say that Major Hunt commanded the 1st Mountain Battery, and East Group of the Royal Artillery.
In December 1941 he was commanding officer of the Royal Army Service Corps in Hong Kong (see www.hongkongwardiary.com).
Duncan Tollan came to Hong Kong from Edinburgh with his wife, Rosina Wilson Cray Tollan and children in 1905. He arrived as the chief engineer of the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Co.. In 1925, the company was acquired by the Hong Kong Telephone Co. He remained with the Hong Kong Telephone Co. until his retirement in 1947.
The Tollans had the following children:
1. Elizabeth Whittaker b. 1901,
2. Anne Mackenzie b. 1903,
3. Rose b. 1905, d. 1919,
4. Duncan Leonard Gibson b. and d. 1907,
5. Lorna Margaret Printz b. 1911 and
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.
Source:
Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong & 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
