Everything tagged: HKVDC

Ernest Hillas Williams was from a Church of Ireland family from Cork (Eire). He entered the Colonial Civil Service as an administrator, eventually becoming Puisne Judge and then Assistant Attorney General.

He was a sergeant in the HKVDC, imprisoned first in Shamshuipo and then Innoshima Camp (Japan).

After the war he became Chief Justice of the British Borneo Territories.

ER Walch was an accountant with Lowe, Bingham & Matthews from about 1936-1941. Address in Jurors List for 1936 was The Peak Hotel. His 1937-1940 address is given as 20 Broadwood Road, usually known as The Towers. He is given as an auditor in Hong Kong in the 1941 Government Gazette. He married Dorothy Olivia Dransfield, daughter of Albert and Laura Dransfield on 20th April 1939 at the Union Church.

John Arthur Gaunt was a brilliant physicist - 'the Gaunt factor' is a formula still used in astrophysics.

He graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity, Cambridge in 1926 and began a period of research. His specialism was the new field of Quantum Mechanics, then entering its greatest periods - he probably attended the first course of lectures given by Paul Dirac, now considered one of the finest physicists of all time.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Begg's occupation in 1941 as "Merchant".

If anyone has a photo of this man, please could you post a copy for us to see? I'm helping Patricia O'Sullivan identify some faces in a photo, and one is likely this man.

A quick search on Gwulo finds a few mentions, including:

1907-8 Jurors List:

1909-15 Jurors List:

THE ESCAPE OF CAPT I B TREVOR HKVDC.

The escape was made from Shamshuipo from a slipway used for careening sampans, which was not wired.  11.25 p m February 1^st the route commenced by creeping along a typhoon wall for some 600 yards, swimming to a point in Shamshuipo Bay opposite a Chinese Sauce factory, and then up Golden Hill and down the Shingmun gorge.

STATEMENT by Sigmn. E MAYCOCK, attached to No.2 Company on the events of the night 24/25 December, 1941.

2563, Cpl. William G. Poy.

Recommended for a decoration in recognition of his unfailing devotion to duty in the face of danger.  After carrying out his task on the Mainland, he continued to show the same courage and resource on the Island.  His readiness to go forward of our lines to contact elements of doubtful position set an example to the rest of the D/Rs.  His courage and dependability has been highly praised by all officers under whom he served, including Lt.Col Field, R.A.

(signed)  A. N. Braude, Captain,   O.C. Corps Signals, H.K.V.D.C.