Everything tagged: POW

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

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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)

First mate 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.  Liberated September 1945.  From Highland Park, California.

First engineer aboard 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.  Liberated September 1945.  From North Hollywood, California.  Married to Peggy Pedersen.