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• Lt Col. Shackleton, RAMC, was Commanding Officer of the Bowen Road Military Hospital
• "Captive surgeon in Hong Kong: the story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945" by Donald C. Bowie :

• In 1965, Commander REME John Probert arranged a visit for former Hong Kong prisoners of war on the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Sham Shui Po POW Camp.
  

Grace James was a BCMS missionary who married another BCMS missionary and served in China from 1933. 

Grace was born in Worthing, Sussex in January 1909, the youngest of nine children born to Alfred and Sarah James.  Her father Alfred was a watchmaker, repairer and dealer.

Missionary.

Marjorie / Margery Hook was a pioneering missionary who served with her husband with the BCMS in China from 1933 to 1940.  

Kowloon Wharf Police

Permalink Submitted by 1314 on Wed, 05/06/2015 - 03:49

In 1960 the Supt of KWP was ' Dusty ' Rhodes, one of the few ex Shanghai Municipal Policemen ,(originally numbering about 40,who had been recruited to Hong Kong in the immediate post-war period,) to remain in HK, most left on completion of their 2 year contract. I have their details.

Dusty Rhodes

Submitted by KCE78 on Sat, 05/13/2023 - 16:34

Hello there,

His entry in the 1942 list of internees:

• Forrow joined the Volunteer Air Arm as a cadet pilot and trained to fly torpedo-bombers and amphibians. These aircraft were destroyed by the Japanese when they invaded Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. Later, he was assigned to a Volunteer rescue unit and continued to rescue civilians before being captured. He was eventually imprisoned in Sham Shui Po POW camp, where his mother was also interned in Stanley.
• He helped the Hong Kong Football Club survive after WWII. His leadership rebuilt the club, which remains a thriving institution today.

When Lucy Baird was born in 1888 in Golftyn Lane, Connah’s Quay, on the River Dee, Flintshire, her father, James, was 45, and a foreman in the shipbuilding works. Her mother, Jane, was 42. Lucy had nine siblings, of which she was the youngest.  Some of them died in infancy.  It was in Connah’s Quay that she grew up as the census returns of 1891 and 1901 attest.