CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943 — Page 73

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Louisa OBURGE POY.

WILLIAM GEUROB POY

Born Chiltern, Victoria, Australia, May 17th, 1907.

Left Australia for Hongkong 1926.

Employed by Canadian Government in Hongkong and Manchuria since 1929.

Joined Hongkong V.3.0. in 1935. ualified as 2nd year Territorial standard signaller and

1st year Army standard.

Held rank of Corporal in Corps signals /R section, which was the first Chinese section formed in the R.X.V.D.C..

Father died in Kwangtung 1928.

Mother and balance of family comprised of three brothers and four sisters in Australia.

One brother

Roy Maxwell Poy, enlisted in A.I.F

in Victoria, Australia, and arrived in Singapore 1911. Prozent address of family is:

431, Kacauley trect,

Albury, Australia.

unly cousin in China has been in Chinese Amy of General Yu Hou Now since 1930 and when last heard of was holding the rank about equivalent to that of Colonel, and is now believed to be in the Military Academy at Chungking.

st His name is Ly thin Mo.

Officer in the District Grand Lodge of Hongkong and S.C. and Past Master of Lodge St.John 618 Scottish Constitution, from 1940-1941. Confirmation r which may be secured fron Edinburgh.

Pritish Consulate-General,

Lourenço Marques,

27th July, 1942.

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