b.1892, Shanghai – d.1980, Isle of Man. MC, MBBS (Lond.) 1911; MRCS (Eng.); LRCP (Lond.); DPH; DTMH (Eng.). Hong Kong nlt.1920-1945, government doctor. Liverpool 1945. Honor: MC; King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; King's Coronation Medal 1937; CBE 1946 (for service during internment).
HONG KONG nlt.1920. Government doctor 1920-45. Medical Officer In-Charge, Victoria Gaol Hospital January 25, 1920 (vice William James Woodman). Visiting Medical Officer, Tung Wah Hospital 1920 Medical Officer In-Charge, Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases 1921. Medical Officer In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital [n.d.] - May 6, 1928. Medical Officer In-Charge , Victoria General and Maternity Hospital 1931. Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services October 29, 1931 Acting Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, April 22, 1931; (vice William Browlow Ashe Moore, absence on leave) March 5, 1932; March 23, 1933; January 29, 1935 – [n.d.]; (vice W.B.A. Moore, absence on leave) on two occasions: November 25, 1935 – [n.d.], December 21, 1935 – [n.d.]; January 1936 – [n.d.]; February 22, 1936 – [n.d.]. Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths March 1, 1932 – [n.d.]; January 29, 1935 – [n.d.]. Deputy Director of Medical Services October 21, 1936- 1938. Acting Director of Medical Services June 11, 1937 - September 1937. Temporary Member (Official), Legislative Council June 11, – September 1937. Acting Member, Nurses Board (vice William Innes Gerrard, absence on leave) March 16, 1934. Corps Surgeon, St. John Ambulance. Lecturer in Therapeutics 1926-30, 1935-36; Mental Diseases 1941, HKU. JP (official) February 12, 1925 – EOP. Defense Reserve, Key-Posts Group January 25, 1940. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned, Stanley Camp January 1942 – August 1945; camp medical officer May 2, 1943 – August 1945, appointed by Franklin Gimson, Colonial Secretary (also interned at Stanley Camp); repatriation, Liverpool 1945.
s/o James Valentine [1], b.1855-d.1940, and Edith Elizabeth Sharp, b.1866-d.1945. Siblings: 1. Florence Mary Valentine, b.1893-d.1979; 2. Robert Keith Valentine, b.1897-d.1984 and; 3. Arthur Jone Milne (Jock) Valentine, b.1906-d.1992.
m. Nina Emily Williams [2], b.1895-d.1966, Hong Kong June 26, 1929; d/o H.T. Williams, of Whitstable, Kent. Had issue: 1. Stuart Douglas Valentine, b.1932-d.2001.
[1] James Valentine was probably the Shanghai sub-manager of London based trading firm, Holliday, Wise & Co.
[2] Nina Emily Valentine commanded the Auxiliary Nursing Service.
Selected bibliography: Emerson, Geoffrey Charles, Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008, p.98. Evans, Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987, p.271. Hong Kong Government, Medical Report for the Year 1921, p17. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1920; 1931, p.66. The Hong Kong Government Gazette: 1925, February 13, 1925, #78; May 1, 1931, #259; October 30, 1931, #690; 1932, March 4, 1932, #140; March 18, 1932, #170; March 24, 1933, #187; April 27, 1934, #330; January 25, 1935, #61 and #64; May 6, 1935, #362; November 22, 1935, #900; December 20, 1935, #988; January 10, 1936, #31; February 21, 1936, #179; October 9, 1936, #815; May 14, 1937, #342; June 11, 1937, #401 and #430; October 1, 1937, #689; 1940, January 26, 1940 #105; April 12, 1940, #408; May 2, 1941, #521. Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society, Plague, Sars, and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006, p.188. Mundia [internet]. The Straits Times, June 26, 1929, p.10. Supplement to the London Gazette, June 13, 1946, p.2794.
[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]
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