Everything tagged: POW

T Drummond Hunter OBE (he doesn't seem to have used the full name 'Thomas').

Details from his obituary in The Herald.

The IWM has a recording of an interview with him.

Notes moved here from the page for his second wife, Wendy:

Submitted by clithering on Sun, 2022-02-20 00:08.

Mark Wavell, Joan Walkden's cousin, writes:

Her husband Frank was on the Lisbon Maru and survived initially but died of pneumonia in camp at Kobe, he is buried in the war graves cemetery in Yokohama.

Entry in the 1941 Jurors List:

Entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

He's mentioned in the Hong Kong Volunteer & Ex-PoW Association of NSW's Occasional Paper No 8 Australians in Hong Kong in the Pacific War:

Entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

The above details on the birth and death dates of Robert Cyril Reed, uncle of Angela Niles, were supplied by eurasion_david, who kindly copied his obituary from the SCMP:

"EX-TEACHER DIES

Mr. Robert Cyril Reed, a long-time resident, died on Saturday. He was 66.

Mr Reed was a teacher at the Moral Training School in Kowloon Tong.

He was a keen follower of hockey, cricket and lawn bowls.

Details of birth and death from his page at https://jhshk.org/community/the-jewish-cemetery/burial-list/odell-harry… which also has several photos of Mr Odell.