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[Updated 25/May/2026]

Margery Bennett was a pioneering British missionary of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society who served in South China up 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:

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.