Everything tagged: Ireland

Thomas Francis O'Sullivan was a former bailiff of the Supreme Court who vanished in May 1930. The circumstances of his disappearance were never clarified, but he was eventually declared dead. He was married with three daughters and one son. He was probably of Irish nationality.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Potter's occupation in 1941 as "Barrister".

His death was reported in The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1910-06-24, page 12:

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.

I am looking for biographical details and place of death of Mr Alfred H.Crook, who I know lived in Hong Kong in 1909 and was living in London in 1953.

Teresa Young was married to a Portuguese man. She was probably the sister of Hazel Hardy, in which case she too would have been originally Irish. 

Hazel Hardy was a Hong Kong civil servant in the period leading up to the Japanese attack. She was not interned after the surrender because she had Irish papers.

Her fiance before the war was Sergeant R. J. Hardy (R.A.F.), who became a POW in Shamshuipo. He sent her letters through Chinese labourers when he was part of a party forced to work on the extension of Kai Tak airport. She sent in replies by the same route and also smuggled in medicines and food - hence the nickname.