Everything tagged: HKVDC

Husband of Irene Braudé & father of Patricia and Peter

OC Corps Signals (Captain) HKVDC

Interned Argyle Street and Sham Shui Po camps

Philip Cracknell writes that Koodiaroff fought with the HKVDC, but was lucky to be interned in the civilian camp at Stanley:

A number of civilians were unlucky enough to end up in military POW camps and several volunteers and regular soldiers  were lucky enough to end up in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. One of these was Michael Alex Koodiaroff who had just turned forty and worked as a Hotel Assistant at the Peninsula Hotel. He  was married to  Elizabeth and they had one child, a boy of  seven years.

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

There a couple of mentions in HKGRO that give dates of relevant appointments:

Notes from KWIS #29, 6 May 1943: 

Before hostilities Secretary of Humphres Estate & Finance Co., Ltd.; Secretary of Peak Tramways & Managing Director of Q.B. Piggeries near YEUN LONG, N.T.; Asst. Q.M. of 2nd Battery, H.K.V.D.C.

In 1941 he was a corporal with the HKVDC, source: http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/hkvdc.html

He's mentioned in the 1941 Jurors List:

DoD from Hong Kong War Diary website.

Entry in the 1942 list of POWs: