Everything tagged: POW

Arnhem writes:

He was born in 1900 and arrived in Hong Kong during the first world war.

Jack Brown was appointed Revenue Officer in the dept of Imports and Exports in 1921 in the British Colonial Civil Service. Not sure where he lived. Left HK in 1949.

The 1939 Blue Book lists a John William Macintyre Brown as Senior Revenue Officer, and notes he'd been promoted on 1st Jan. See:

http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/b1939/51939018.pdf

R. J. Hardy was a Sergeant in the R.A.F.

He was senetnced to 15 years in jail for his participation in the resistance in Shamshuipo POW Camp.

He served his time in Stanley Prison and in Canton, survving a serious illness to return to Hong Kong and marry his pre-war fiancee in early September 1945. 

He later gave evidence at a War Crimes Trial.

Henry Ching:

O.Kees, was in the HKVDC and was a POW in Sham Shui Po.

He is mentioned in the 1941 Jurors List:

Carl Smith card #160669 notes:

Parsee Cemetery: Rustam Jehanger Master,
b. H.K. 11 Sept. 1907
d. 27 Mar 1953, aged 45 yrs.

Briony Widdis (nee Crozier) writes:

I am in the process of researching the background to and typing up letters relating to my grandfather Douglas Crozier (he is one of the teachers on the photograph of the Central British School on the home page of your website at present).

He was a Captain in the 2nd Battery of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and was a Japanese Prisoner of War, I am not sure where yet. His wife and children were evacuated to Sydney and after the war he was became Director of Education.

Ernest Tuck was in the ASC division of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. During the December 1941 hostilities he was assigned to the Army Field Bakery at Deepwater Bay, where he worked with Staff-Sergeant Patrick Sheridan, who paid tribute to the value of his contribution.

After the surrender he was held at the camp in North Point, and then sent to Shamshuipo.

Sources:

http://gwulo.com/node/17612