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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 |
Celestina Summers was the wife of Edwin Henry Sparks Summers and mother of Charles, Alec and Frank Summers. Her daughter, Eva, became Mrs. R.F. Forbes. Celestina was "sponsor" at the baptisms of Leslie and Evelyn Warren, my uncle and aunt. Her father had worked as Assistant at the National Hotel after my great-grandfather John Olson retired.
Carl Smith notes that Celestina was 17 when she married Edwin Summers who was 27. Their wedding was on 24 November 1890 at the Roman Catholic Cathedral.
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.
Anti-Qing dynasty revolutionary and author of The Chinese Republic: Secret History of the Revolution (1924), co-founder (with Alfred Cunningham) of the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong in November 1903, airship designer and mercantile assistant of Thoresen & Co. Ltd
"IN MEMORIAM
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TSE TSAN TAI - In ever loving memory of our dearest father, James Tse Tsan Tai, who passed away on April 4, 1938. "Always in our thoughts."