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Valentin Gabriel BORINEVITCH / BOURNE [1910-1980]

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 01/16/2025 - 03:19

He appears in these Jurors Lists as "Borinevitch, Valentin Gabriel" ...

1939: Salesman with Millington, Ld., living at Top Floor, 7  Homuntin Street, Ho Mun Tin

1940: Salesman with Office Appliance Co. Ld., living at 2 King's Terrace, Top floor, Kowloon.

1941: Assistant with Reiss, Bradley & Co., Ld., living at 9B Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.


He was a signalman in the HKVDC, shown at 2a in the photo below

Duncan TOLLAN [c.1877-????]

Submitted by moddsey on Wed, 12/25/2024 - 11:00

Duncan Tollan came to Hong Kong from Edinburgh with his wife, Rosina Wilson Cray Tollan and children in 1905. He arrived as the chief engineer of the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Co.. In 1925, the company was acquired by the Hong Kong Telephone Co. He remained with the Hong Kong Telephone Co. until his retirement in 1947. 

The Tollans had the following children:

1. Elizabeth Whittaker b. 1901,

2. Anne Mackenzie b. 1903,

3. Rose b. 1905, d. 1919,

4. Duncan Leonard Gibson b. and d. 1907,

5. Lorna Margaret Printz b. 1911 and

Joseph W. DREWERY [????-????]

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 12/16/2024 - 23:51

Joseph Drewery was in the Prison Department and appointed Warder on 19 October 1931. He married Miss Guiomar Maria Remedios at the Registry on 28 December 1935. At the time, he was a Warder at Lai Chi Kok Prison.

He also served as a Private with the HKVDC in the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was taken Prisoner-of-War and later shipped to Japan. Details: Drewery, Joseph W. Lance Corp. 3737 (XD5).

His wife and their two children, Marcus (born in 1929) and Irene (born in 1933) were interned at Stanley Camp.

Source:

Frederick Solomon CULLEN (aka Fred) [1889-1945]

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 12/15/2024 - 01:13

Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dockyard and resided on site.

He was a Private with the HKVDC during the Battle of Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Sham Shui Po Camp. Corporal Fred Cullen died on 2 March 1945 and is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery.

Source

1. Genealogy: https://www.lasbury.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I51867&tree=tree1

Felix Frederick Arthur DUNNETT [1916-1990]

Submitted by moddsey on Fri, 06/28/2024 - 16:14

In the 1938 Jurors List, Felix Frederick Arthur Dunnett worked as a clerk for Lowe, Bingham & Matthews. He married  an American woman, Jennie Paula White whose father, Claude Ellsworth White is mentioned here. The Dunnetts had a son, Michael born in November 1940.

Robert Leo BARKUS [1905-1957]

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 12:04

Mentioned in the Jurors Lists, 1938-41:

c   Barkus Roberto Leo Draughtsman H. K. & Whampoa Dock Co., Ld.   On premises

 And in the 1942 list of POWs:

Barkus R L HKVDC Lce/Corp. 4113

Lionel Arthur DABELSTEIN [1902-1982]

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 09/21/2023 - 11:20

He is mentioned in the 1940 Jurors List:

c   Dabelstein, Lionel Arthur Factory Manager, Organic Fertilizer Co., Ld. Fanling.

Then in the 1942 lists for POWs and wounded:

Harold Richard DARBY (aka Dick) [1919-1993]

Submitted by Alan Ho on Tue, 08/15/2023 - 10:56
  • In 1939 he enrolled with the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), rising to the rank of sergeant, in charge of one of their two Bren guns.
  • as a prisoner of war on Christmas Day 1941 when Hong Kong fell, interned as a POW until the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
  • was the Bishop of Sherwood — a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwell — from 1975 until 1988