Everything tagged: HKVDC

He appears in the list of POWs:

In peacetime he was headmaster of the Diocesan Boys School, DBS.

He served in the HKVDC as a despatch rider. He survived the fighting and is shown on the list of POWs:

Jack, Lawrence – Sergeant No. 1834
HKVDC, died 22 August 1942 of diphtheria, buried Stanley Military Cemetery 1.A.98.  Born 29 July 1900, Hong Kong, son of William Charles Jack & Jane McWilliam Paterson, younger brother of James Mackenzie, husband of Daisy Mae Spalding (1885-1981), married 29 May 1929, Hong Kong. Merchant, William Jack & Co.

Houghton, John Mayo – Corporal
HKVDC, died 21 December 1941, aged 35, recorded Sai Wan Memorial Col. 33.  Baptised 1 February 1906, All Saints, Clifton, Bristol.  Son of John Mayo Houghton (1870-1947), bank manager & Lucy Evelyn Trotman (1873-1969), married 10 January 1905, Dawlish, Devon.  Worked for the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, in Hong Kong.

Floisand, Alfred – Gunner No. 4357
1 Bty., HKVDC, died 25 December 1941, bur. Stanley Military Cem. 1.D.Coll.grave 14-16.  Born in Bergen, Norway.

Burson, Herbert – Lance Corporal
HKVDC, died 21 December 1941, aged 37, buried Stanley Military Cemetery 6.D.19. Son of Frederick & Minnie Burson, husband of Vera Ethel Maud Lucas (1909-1996), married 11 September 1932, Islington, London.  Salesman, Lane, Crawford & Co., Hong Kong.  Vera remarried Henry Albert New (1913-1999) c.1952, NSW, Australia.

He appears in the Jurors Lists [1] for 1939 and 1940, working as a Turner for S. Moutrie & Co., Ld. In 1939 he was living at 16 Carnarvon Road in Kowloon, and the following year he had moved to 172 Nathan Road.

He was Bombardier 3111 in the HKVDC's Second Battery, and fought the Japanese in December 1941 [2][3][4].

He survived the fighting and was made a POW.

He died of pneumonia on 21 Feb 1943 [2].

Sources:

Bone, Adam – Sergeant No. 3224
4 Bty., HKVDC, died 24 December 1942, aged 31, buried Stanley Military Cemetery 1.A.25.  Cause of death, tertiary fever, duodenal ulcer.  Born 16 June 1910, son of David & Amelia Bone of Maryhill, Glasgow.

Pre-war:

Born 9 April 1905 [4]

The earliest mention I've found of him in Hong Kong is the 1925 Jurors List [1], which has him working as an Assistant at HK &Whampoa Dock Co Ld's Kowloon Docks. He appears in the Lists for 1926 and 1927 with the same details.

In 1927 he switched to work for the government, and stayed there until the war. The 1939 Blue Book [2] shows him working as a Sanitary Inspector in the Sanitary Department.

Wartime:

He fought with in HKVDC's 2nd Battery as Gunner 2953. [3]

Pre-war: