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Brief biography from https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/agents/people/12720:

Warrington Kenneth Corneck worked for Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd from 1937 to 1976. He was employed at Hong Kong, Korea, Shanghai and Taiwan, mainly with regard to the company's shipping activities.

1941 Jurors List (note different name order):

Flt Lt Baugh escaped from Sham Shui Po POW Camp with Major Munro and Captain Trevor on 1 Feb 1942, but was later killed in an airplane crash. This information comes from http://www.rafcommands.com/database/awards/details.php?qnum=43524&qname…

Obituary - Hong Kong Telegraph 4 January 1926

Denman Fuller was a long time organist and choirmaster of St. John's Cathedral. He retired several years ago on account of ill-health. He was prominently associated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, and was, in addition Secretary of the City Hall Library and Curator of the Museum.

Harry is mentioned in the page for Margaret Anne BOND [c.1878-1971]:

angie-r: 

In the group photo taken in front of the house a Harry Gubby is also in it as he was a friend of the family.  Was he part of the family that also lived on Broadwood Road?

jill:

I'm very sorry to have received news that Alison died last week. Her contributions to Gwulo include two wartime diaries that she painstakingly typed up from the originals: the account of her father, Colin McEwan, and that of R. E. Jones.

In 2010, Alison introduced us to Mr Jones's diary:

I've recently started transcribing a diary in my family's possession [...]

How my father Colin McEwan came by it we don't know, but it turned up as we slowly went through my parents' books.

Entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

His entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees: