Marjorie / Margery HOOK (née BENNETT) [1909-1997]
Marjorie / Margery Hook was a pioneering missionary who served with her husband with the BCMS in China from 1933 to 1940.
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Marjorie / Margery Hook was a pioneering missionary who served with her husband with the BCMS in China from 1933 to 1940.
A former stateless Russian subject who resided in Shanghai pre-WWII, he was later an Assistant in the Yangtze Supply Corporation in Hong Kong 1947 and later became a naturalized British subject.
Source: Hong Kong Sessional Papers 1947
On 1 September 1950, Chief Inspector F. J. Clarke was shot and seriously wounded in a gun battle with an armed kidnapping suspect in Ha Kwai Chung Village. In the incident, the Commanding Officer for Kowloon and New Territories Edmund Colin Luscombe and Detective Sub-Inspector Alexander Leslie were tragically killed. Chief Inspector Clarke retired in 1951 and left for Australia.
KGV Prefect 1953-54 and daughter of KGV Headmaster Arthur Leslie Potter (1896-1962)
His mention in the 1942 list of civilian internees:
Ashby R | 38 | Prison Officer |
Tony Banham lists him under the Headquarters of the 1st Hong Kong Regiment of the Hong Kong & Singapore Royal Artillery (HKSRA):
Andrews, Larry R. 2nd Lieutenant. H 23.12 QMH (52)
Author and former ad man, lived in Hong Kong 1987-8.