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“About five o’clock yesterday afternoon the dead body of William Charles Owen, a sapper in the 25th 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 17th inst., and from all appearances his body had been in the water two or three days. An inquest will be held.”
His entry in Tony Banham's records:
Bramble, Harry O. Captain RA TA (Staff Captain RA)
Entry in the 1940 Jurors List:
| c | Bompas, Eric Ainsley | Banker, H. K. & Shanghai Bank | 353 The Peak. |
A H Potts described Captain Fox as the adjutant of the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery.
Name and date of death from Hong Kong War Diary.
"Two more deaths occurred among the military under canvas at Kowloon yesterday from choleraic diarrhoea. One of the men, Bombadier (sic) Barton, of the Lancashire divison of Royal Artillery, was taken ill at 6 in the morning and died at 11. The other victim, Rogers, a private in the Buffs, was attacked at about 8 a.m, and died at 1 p.m. It is only just a fortnight since the camp at Kowloon was established and five deaths have occurred in that short period amongst the men quartered there.
Andrew Salmon first came to Hong Kong in 1937 as a junior member (trumpeter) of the Royal Artillery. He fought the Japanese and was taken prisoner at Stanley in December 1941. He was in Shamshuipo camp and then was sent to Japan on the ill-fated ‘Lisbon Maru’. He survived the ship's sinking by an American submarine (USS Grouper) and was recued by Chinese fishermen from the Chusan Islands. He was subsequently recaptured, shipped to Japan and was in Osaka POW camp until the end of WWII. He was repatriated to the UK via USA/Canada.
Interesting account here of two years spent doing national service in the Royal Artillery, mostly in Hong Kong. Some good photos appear at the end of each chapter.