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Entry in the list of Civilian Internees:

Dates from: https://gwulo.com/comment/57823#comment-57823

He appears in the 1941 Juror's list:

Carl Smith Card 77373

Will of Alfred John Thomas Allison buried 5 February 1934 St John's left all to his widow Florence Clara Allison

Florence Clara Allison was interned. List of internees Mrs. F,C.Allison Room 509 ISH

Probate Records

Florence Clara Allison widow of Gloucester Hotel Hong Kong died 13 October 1945 at 47th British Hospital Hong Kong. Administration to Ethel Annie \jones spinster                          

He was a civil servant, eg entry 816 in the 1938 Government Gazette notes:

[...] Mr. WILLIAM ANEURIN JONES, Assistant Crown Solicitor, is attached to the Treasury as from 17th October, 1938.

My name is John Usher, a native of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England but have been living in Norway since 1971. One of my interest´s is tracing my ancestors and this is why I am contacting you.

Louisa Jane Usher was my grandfather’s elder sister:-

Born is Salisbury, Wiltshire 30 Sept 1865

Census 1871 – 67 Endless Street Salisbury

Census 1881 - 67 Endless Street Salisbury

Census 1891 – Skellbrok Hall Yorkshire, working as a nurse in the house of Percy S. Neville and his wife Etheline.

Director of the Hong Kong Observatory from 1965 to 1981 (source).

My granfather worked in Hong Kong, I believe at the Youmati School from 1922 to the invasion of HK in WW2. I have records of travel out but no records of travel back to the UK though from family photos he clearly did return and travel out again. As the Youmati school is a government school would British government recruit? Would he have needed any experience qualifications. He had served in WW1 and was a lieutentant (I think via the tempoary gentleman route as his family worked on the railways). Would that give him some opportunity to work in HK.

He is mentioned in the list of POWs (though with some mistakes in the name):

And also in the 1941 Jurors List: