Everything tagged: HKVDC

Entry in the 1942 list of Prisoners of War:

Notes from eurasian_david:

Florence Margaret Fowler (with wedding photo), youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs G. Fowler of Hong Kong, married Mr William Garland Long at St John's Cathedral, Hong Kong 20th March 1941

Interned at Sham Shui Po camp during WW2, Corporal in the No 2 Company (Scottish) HKVDC.

Boilermaker by trade, Foreman at HK & Whampoa Shipyard. Lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Hong Kong Dockyard

Wife - Margaret Malcolm (nee Haugh)

Daughter - Elsy Sharp

Emigrated to Hong Kong on 14 Sept 1928, moved back to the UK in the 1960s.

Paternal great grandfather of author

Notes moved here from the page for his second wife, Wendy:

Submitted by clithering on Sun, 2022-02-20 00:08.

Entry in the list of casualties:

Entry in the 1941 Jurors List: 

Notes from annpake:

Harold Wilson Brown 15 June 1913 - 17 December 1941

Permalink Submitted by annpake on Fri, 2022-01-21 22:35.

Entry in the 1941 Jurors List:

Entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

Private G. C. Jitts of the HKVDC was killed in action in the Battle of Wong Nei Chong Gap. His heroics are mentioned in the China Mail dated 1 January 1946.

[Update: I originally titled this page 'R. Clemo', based on the 1940 newspaper clipping with his photo. It has since been confirmed that the young man in the photo was Frederick James Duncan Clemo, so I've updated the details.]

Extracts from his obituary:

John Potter went to Oundle School in England and later qualified as an architect (ARIBA).

He went to Hong Kong in 1931 as Assistant Architect at Leigh and Orange Architects, becoming a partner in 1935.

He was responsible for the design and completion of many buildings in Hong Kong, both public and private. A number of his buildings still stand 80 years later.

John married Norah Huson in November 1939 and they had a son, Christopher, in 1941.