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Timothy McCarthy was born in 1912, in Knocknagree in Co Kerry. He joined the Hong Kong Police in 1934. He was interned in Stanley during the war. When he returned on leave after the war he married my mother Sheila Kearney. When he returned from leave  his wife Sheila was pregnant and unable to travel with him, she joined him in Hong Kong when their son Denis was 3 months old. Their second son John was born in September 1948 in Hong Kong. He retired from the police in 1949 and returned with the family to Ireland. 

His entry in the 1942 list of Civilian Internees:

His entry in the 1942 list of internees:

He is mentioned on the 1942 list of Civilian internees:

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,

On 1 September 1950, Chief Inspector F. J. Clarke was shot and seriously wounded in a gun battle with an armed kidnapping suspect in Ha Kwai Chung Village. In the incident, the Commanding Officer for Kowloon and New Territories Edmund Colin Luscombe and Detective Sub-Inspector Alexander Leslie were tragically killed. Chief Inspector Clarke retired in 1951 and left for Australia.