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: <Read more ...>
Les Bird joined the Hong Kong Marine Police in 1976 during a period of rapid change in one of the British Empire’s few remaining colonies, and witnessed the last years of the hard-working, hard-drinking colonial policemen handing out rough justice in the World of Suzie Wong. <Read more ...>
On 26 August 1939 Fred Woodhead set sail from Southampton to Hong Kong on the Viceroy of India together with a number of other "Crown Agents" who were members of the Hong Kong Police. After the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 he was imprisoned in Sham Shui Po POW Camp. He was on the Lisbon Maru on 1 October 1942 when it was torpedoed and sunk by US submarine Grouper. Fred survived and was then transferred to Osaka Camp #1, where he remained for the duration of the war. He returned to the UK after his release and married his finacee, Miss Jeannie Smith, 3 weeks lat <Read more ...>
