William LYSAUGHT [1836-1910]
His death was reported in The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1910-06-24, page 12:
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Ernest Hillas WILLIAMS [1899-1965]
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.
Alfred Herbert CROOK [1873-1955]
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.
William Henry BRERETON [1824-1887]
William Henry Brereton QC (born Dublin & died at his home on Mount Gough, The Peak, Hong Kong 24 Oct 1887) was buried in Happy Valley cemetery. He was the only son of Francis Frederick Brereton (Solicitor of Dublin) & was baptised in St. Mary's, Dublin on 23 July 1824 (his birth date is given as 26 May 1824). The Death Notice in The China Mail 25 Oct 1887 gives his age as 59.
Teresa YOUNG [????-????]
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 (née O'SULLIVAN, aka The Angel of Hong Kong) [1918-1983]
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.
Gerald L KENNEDY (aka Doc) [????-????]
Father Gerald L. Kennedy was an Irish Jesuit stationed at Wah Yan College between 1938-1941.
He had RAMC experience during WW1 and took over the running of St Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon during the December 1941 conflict.
He can be seen in this photo:
Paul O BRIEN [????-????]
Father Paul O'Brien was an Irish Jesuit priest.
During the December 1941 hostilities he worked in Billetting Control. He performed the burial service for Volunteer Maxwell in the grounds of St John's Cathedral. (Thomas Ryan, Jesuits Under Fire in the Siege of Hong Kong, 1944, 25, 154)
He lived for tne first part of the occupation with other Jesuits at St. Paul's Hospital and one source describes him as 'Chaplain of the French Hospital at Causeway Bay' in April 1942. (Nathan Greenfield The Damned, 2010, Location 3736).