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“About five o’clock yesterday afternoon the dead body of William Charles Owen, a sapper in the 25^th Company, Royal Artillery, was found in the harbour at Wanchai. It is not yet known how the deceased, who was 30 years of age, got into the water. He had been missing from barracks since midnight on the 17^th inst., and from all appearances his body had been in the water two or three days. An inquest will be held.”

Second son of Charles Edward Warren and Hannah Mabel Warren. Educated in Hong Kong, Canada and England. Articled to Arthur Edwards, Architect and Surveyor, Birmingham, 1919-1923. On the death of his father in June 1923, aged only 23, he took over as managing director of C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong with the oversight of John Fleming of Lowe, Bingham and Matthews.