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Noel C BARRETTO [????-????]

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His entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

Barretto N C HKVDC Lce/Corp. 2718

A mention in the A E Gomes Newsletter for Sep 1988:

Eneas L CUNHA [????-????]

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His entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

Cunha E L HKVDC Lieutenant

A mention in the A E Gomes Newsletter for Sep 1988:

George Maurice DAVREUX [1908-1968]

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1941 Jurors List:

c   Davreux, George Maurice. Estate Agent, Credit Foncier d'Extreme Orient 19 Homuntin Hill, Homuntin.

1942 list of POWs:

Davreux G M HKVDC Gunner 4718

His grave is in the Hong Kong Cemetery:

Jim NEVILLE [????-????]

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Note in A E Gomes newsletter Aug 1988:

Jim Neville 24th Heavy Battery R.A. ex Shamshuipo, ex "the Undesirables" draft to Japan with Tom Quilliam writes very interestingly of the view of the war action here from Mt Davis - "grandstand view of the lonely gunboat HMS Cicala which turned and twisted dodging the Jap bombers, all happening near Green Island below Mt Davis."

Albert T HAINES [????-????]

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Mentioned in A E Gomes Newsletter Aug 88:

Albert Haines ex Lieut. HK Dockyard Defence Corps ex Shamshuipo and Argyle Street Camp

Freddy Lizola ROCHA [????-????]

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1941 Jurors List:

c   Rocha, Freddy Lizola Assistant, Wallace Harper & Co., Ld. 8 King's Road, 2nd floor.

1942 list of POWs:

Rocha Fred L HKVDC Gunner 3438

A E Gomes Newsletter Aug 1988:

Gnr. Fred Rocha, HKVDC, 4th Battery, Drafted to Japan from Shamshuipo 29/4/44

Anne Willem HUIDEKOPER [????-????]

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He appears in the 'DUTH SUBMARINE" section on page 38 of Tse Dickuan's list of POWs:

5962.Huidekoper, Ann Willem   Sub/Lt.

The Dutch Submarine O20 was damaged by Japanese depth charges off the coast of Malaya, and was eventually scuttled. The crew were captured by the Japanese, and taken to Hong Kong as POWs.