Appendix "D"
OFFICER MAKING
ECOMMENDATIONS.
XXXI.
OFFICERS RECOMMENDED.
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EXTRACT FROM RECOMMENDING OFFICER'S REPORT, AND/OR DIARY REFERENCES.
December, when he himself was wounded. He has nothing further to add.
I showed this report to him.
Mr. J. Hargeaves, (a) L. S. A160 Police
Accountant.
Gunning.
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"I beg to draw your attention to the excellent work performed by Lance- Sergeant A. J. Gunning during the hostilities in Hong Kong in December 1941. This officer was at the time acting as assistant accountant and. it was part of his duties to go to the various stations to advance money to officers stationed there. Day after Gay, acting as his own chauffeur, Sergeant Gunning went out early in the morning and after travelling most of the day returned late in the evening. is journeys often took him through h avy shelling and air bomb- ing, but he allowed nothing to inter- fere with his work and never failed to complete the itinery he had been set. He visited in turn every permanent & temporary stat ion and post on the island and it was in no small measure due to Sergeant Gunning's help that I was able to keep the accounts office running smoothly and efficiently during the period. of hostilities."
(b) Mr. F. J. Anslow. "I would also like to commend to
your notice the good work of Mr. F. J. Anslow, the assistant accountant in cla charge of stores. This officer also had to spend long perioàs under heavy
good with bad.
rokning special fire at the wheel of a car or lorry
collecting stores, and sometimes had actually to load the stores himself during shelling and bombing. His power of discovering stores and persuading reluctant orners to dispose of them were particularly noteworthy."1
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N.B.
(1) The above contains all recommendations made by officers
listed in Appendix "A". Other Officers had no recommenda- tions to make.
(2) A copy of a Minute from His Excellency the Governor concern-
ing the evacuation of Kowloon is inserted here for the purpose of record :
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.
I have read Mr. Calthrop's Report on the Police Evacuation from Kowloon with its enclosures, and in accordance with the in- structions now in force regarding papers which are not to fall into the hands of the enemy I have ordered its destruction.