Everything tagged: HKVDC

3159, Sgt. Neville John Booker.

I'm looking for photos / sketches / portraits of him for the CPS project's history book. He was a magistrate.

1912 - DoB from this family tree entry on Geni: http://www.geni.com/people/Donald-James-Neville-Anderson/60000000135610…

1941, Feb 14 - He is appointed a magistrate:

Henry Ching:

O.Kees, was in the HKVDC and was a POW in Sham Shui Po.

He is mentioned in the 1941 Jurors List:

Carl Smith card #160669 notes:

Parsee Cemetery: Rustam Jehanger Master,

b. H.K. 11 Sept. 1907

d. 27 Mar 1953, aged 45 yrs.

Briony Widdis (nee Crozier) writes:

I am in the process of researching the background to and typing up letters relating to my grandfather Douglas Crozier (he is one of the teachers on the photograph of the Central British School on the home page of your website at present).

He was a Captain in the 2nd Battery of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and was a Japanese Prisoner of War, I am not sure where yet. His wife and children were evacuated to Sydney and after the war he was became Director of Education.

Cuthbert James Norman was apointed Assistant Superintendent of Prisons with effect from January 10, 1941. During the December 1941 hostilities he commanded the Stanley Platoon (prison officers) which saw some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict.

He was interned in Stanley and after liberation wrote 'A Farewell to Stanley', perhaps the best-known poem of the Hong Kong war.

He became Commissioner of Prisons on February 26, 1953.

He was awarded the CBE.

Poem: