Edwin Alfred PRITCHARD [1893-1946]
In 1941 he was the Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs.
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In 1941 he was the Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs.
Details from "Girton College Register: 1869-1946", which notes:
Travelled to Hong Kong via Canada, Japan (overland) and N. China at beginning of war and remained there until 1945; some teaching; nursing during siege of Hong Kong and during Japanese occupation; spent 3 years and 8 months in Stanley [...]
Barbara Anslow:
He was A.D.C. to the Governor pre-war.
Brian Edgar has a good account of Hyde's activities in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation:
"G.B. Foster" appears on the List of Prison Officers for 1940, which shows he started work there on 9th Nov, 1922. He fought in the Stanley Platoon of the HKVDC.