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Captain Percy Richard Gay Cuming worked for the Indo China Steam Navigation Company, his wife was Kathleen. He lived in Hong Kong from 1909 to 1927 when he was transferred to Shanghai.

Notes from the History page on the Wilkinson & Grist website:

Chinese Wikipedia has a page for him - here's a link to the English translation.

Samuel Job Witchell was usually known as Job Witchell.

Rudi Butt has gathered a lot of information about Job Witchell in his article Job And James Henry Witchell. Here are some of the key events from that article:

Osmond Skinner was born in Lee in the Lewisham district of London and his birth was registered Quarter 4 Lewisham 1900. In 1911 he was living with his parents Alfred and Edith Skinner in Lewisham.

He married age 31 to Hazel Agnes Goodburn (1900 - 1987)  in Manila on 22 August 1931

Consular Birth Indices

Elizabeth Anne Skinner born in Manila Philippines abt 1932/3 aka Anne. She was the child of Osmond Skinner and Hazel Agnes

Passenger List May 1945 Hong Kong to London

He was a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps and interned at Shamshuipo, before being transferred to Osaka in April 1944.

A university professor.

He isn't shown in the 1941 Jurors list.

When war arrived on 8th December, 1941, Heywood was working at the Observatory on Nathan Road. Heywood set off with a colleague to the New Territories to collect several instruments. Instead he was captured by the Japanese, and began three years and eight months of life as a prisoner of war.

His account of his wartime experiences has been published in the book, It won't be long now. You can read an extract here on Gwulo.