Everything tagged: HKVDC

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.

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Frederick Solomon Cullen was a storekeeper in the Hong Kong Kowloon & 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.

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

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.

Mentioned in the Jurors Lists, 1938-41:

 And in the 1942 list of POWs:

He is mentioned in the 1940 Jurors List:

Then in the 1942 lists for POWs and wounded:

• 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

• Hong Kong-born Portuguese lawyer, civil servant and soldier, who was an honorary colonel of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force (predecessor of the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (Volunteers) ) from 1961 to 1968.
• He also participated in the Battle of Hong Kong that broke out in December 1941. After Hong Kong fell, he became a prisoner of war until he was released after Hong Kong's liberation in 1945. 

• Forrow joined the Volunteer Air Arm as a cadet pilot and trained to fly torpedo-bombers and amphibians. These aircraft were destroyed by the Japanese when they invaded Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. Later, he was assigned to a Volunteer rescue unit and continued to rescue civilians before being captured. He was eventually imprisoned in Sham Shui Po POW camp, where his mother was also interned in Stanley.
• He helped the Hong Kong Football Club survive after WWII. His leadership rebuilt the club, which remains a thriving institution today.