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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

Husband of Irene Braudé & father of Patricia and Peter

OC Corps Signals (Captain) HKVDC

Interned Argyle Street and Sham Shui Po camps

Buried in Notre Dame cemetery Ottawa.

Author of "Underground From Hong Kong"