Everything tagged: POW

Oiler in the engine room of the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  From Los Angeles.  Postwar, buried in Honolulu National Cemetery.

• Changing his surname to Morley after the Second World War.
• Joined Royal Scots as a Band Boy and played in the Royal Scots band.
• 1936/03/06- Was posted to 2nd Battalion in Lahore, India.
• In 1938 the battalion was posted to Hong Kong. He played in the Royal Scots band.
• When the Japanese invaded he was at Wong Nai Chung Gap and he was then hospitalised at St Albert's Convent. 

Mentioned in the Jurors Lists, 1938-41:

 And in the 1942 list of POWs:

He is mentioned in the 1940 Jurors List:

Then in the 1942 lists for POWs and wounded:

• In 1939 he enrolled with the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), rising to the rank of sergeant, in charge of one of their two Bren guns.
• as a prisoner of war on Christmas Day 1941 when Hong Kong fell, interned as a POW until the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
• was the Bishop of Sherwood — a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwell — from 1975 until 1988

• Lt Col. Shackleton, RAMC, was Commanding Officer of the Bowen Road Military Hospital
• "Captive surgeon in Hong Kong: the story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945" by Donald C. Bowie :

The Hong Kong War diary website lists him as: "Major (Reserve Office.)", and notes he was at the Bowen Road Hospital.