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John Black's list notes he was a Policeman, born in 1896.

Ernest Tuck was in the ASC division of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. During the December 1941 hostilities he was assigned to the Army Field Bakery at Deepwater Bay, where he worked with Staff-Sergeant Patrick Sheridan, who paid tribute to the value of his contribution.

After the surrender he was held at the camp in North Point, and then sent to Shamshuipo.

Sources:

http://gwulo.com/node/17612

Horace William Bonner was a corporal in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

During the December 1941 hostilities he worked with the army master baker Patrick Sheridan at the Field Bakery at Deep Water Bay. He was killed at Overbays on December 23, 1941 (in fact December 22nd - see comments below).

Staff-Sergeant Sheridan says he spoke Chinese and pays tribute to his work on more than one occasion.

He was aged 40 at death.

Sources:

Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance, 2003, 223.

Her husband was C R Lee.

She accompanied the Japanese when they made their first "Peace Mission" from Kowloon to Hong Kong on the 13th Dec 1941, requesting the British surrender.

Gwen Priestwood was supposed to be a nurse during the Japanese attack, but volunteered to drive a food supply lorry instead.

Soon after the surrender, she tried to escape with others but the plan came to nothing. She was interned in Stanley Camp with the rest of the Allied civilians, but on March 18, 1942 she began an escape with policeman W. P. Thompson. She carried with her to Chungking a complete list of British internees.

In 1944 she published an account of her experiences: Through Japanese Barbed-wire.

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