Forbes MACLEOD [1913-1974]
Tony Banham lists him under "Unallocated HKRNVR":
McLeod, Forbes Lieutenant S
Source: http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/rnandraf.html
Tony Banham lists him under "Unallocated HKRNVR":
McLeod, Forbes Lieutenant S
Source: http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/rnandraf.html
Philip Cracknell writes:
I thought he might have been the husband of Mrs E B Barron, who was interned in Stanley Camp.
George Hall was an architect.
Tony Chan writes:
Hall & Hall were founded by George Albert Victor Hall (1897-1956, RIBA, Authorized Architect 1927-41) (Fig.32) and William Hall (Authorized Architect 1920-33) from 1928 to 1933. They were sons of a famous Eurasian, Sin Tak Fan. After the death of William, George partnered with Harry Way (Authorized Architect 1924->41, HKIA 1956) to form Way & Hall from 1934 to 1956.
The following report describes Goodwin's view on conditions in the POW camps in Hong Kong.
SECRET
0103/3995(I.W).
16th Dec.l944. Copy No..18
20 Oct. 44
INTERROGATION REPORT NO. SKP/5/44
Escapers Serial No. E/5
Name and Rank: Lt. R.B. GOODWIN
Unit: R. N. Z. N. V. R.
Date of Capture: 25 Dec. 41.
Date of Escape: 17 Jul. 44.
Date of arrival in British hands : 3 Aug. 44.
MAIN REPORT
1. Brief History
Ralph Burton Goodwin OBE RNZNVR
Billy served in the HKVDC, then became a Prisoner of War after the surrender. He was shipped to Japan along with many other POWs, and died there in 1945.
This information, along with dates of birth & death, taken from page 26 of Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley, by Geoffrey Charles Emerson.
Ernest Hillas Williams was from a Church of Ireland family from Cork (Eire). He entered the Colonial Civil Service as an administrator, eventually becoming Puisne Judge and then Assistant Attorney General.
He was a sergeant in the HKVDC, imprisoned first in Shamshuipo and then Innoshima Camp (Japan).
After the war he became Chief Justice of the British Borneo Territories.
John Arthur Gaunt was a brilliant physicist - 'the Gaunt factor' is a formula still used in astrophysics.
He graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity, Cambridge in 1926 and began a period of research. His specialism was the new field of Quantum Mechanics, then entering its greatest periods - he probably attended the first course of lectures given by Paul Dirac, now considered one of the finest physicists of all time.