updated October 30, 2013.
d. August 8, 1890, London - d. February 24, 1956, Sydney. RAMC, Corporal 1910-1913; the Great War. Martyn Memorial Scholarship in clinical pathology 1924, MBChB (Bristol) 1925; DPH (Lond.) 1932. Private practitioner, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1925. Honorary anesthetist, Royal United Hospitals, Bath ca.1926. Colonial Medical Service 1927. Hong Kong 1927-42, government doctor. England 1943-45, Colonial Office, Hong Kong Planning Unit 1943. Hong Kong 1945-47, government doctor. Retired, 1947. Australia [n.d.].
HONG KONG 1927. Government doctor 1927-40. Medical Office In-Charge,
Government Civil Hospital 1929. Acting Port Health Officer and Inspector of Emigrants September 21, 1932, March 24, 1933, (vice
Joseph Patrick Fehily, absence on leave) October 4, 1934 - [n.d.] and June 29, 1936 - [n.d.], August 6, 1937 - [n.d.]. Acting Medical Office of Health February 1934, July 11, 1934. Second Port Health Officer and Inspector of Emigrants March 12, 1934. Visiting Health Officer Chinese Hospital and Dispensaries 1936. Shanghai Refugees Committee 1937. Health Officer, East January 21 - October 13, 1939. Acting Member, Town Planning Board (pending the arrival of the Deputy Director of Health Services) July 19, 1939. Acting Deputy Director of Health Services August 1, 1939. Honorary Secretary, HKBMA 1928-30. JP (official) 1932 - EOP; Defense Reserve, Key Post Group January 25, 1940. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned 1941-1942; escaped 1942, arrived Calcutta via Macau, Kweilin (Guilin)
桂林, Kungming (Kunming)
昆明, and Chungking (Chongqing)
重慶. England October 1943. Hong Kong August 30, 1945, Lieutenant-Colonel, Civil Affairs Service. Health Officer May 1946. Retired 1947.
m. Muriel Irene Fursdon, 1927, Bristol; b. January 1, 1900, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - d.1981; d/o John Angell James Fursdon, b.1859, and Ellen (Nellie) Hall, b.1869. Had issue 1. Anthony G. Ware (Rev.), b.Hong Kong; Bristol Univ.; Methodist Lay Preacher; read theology London Univ.; Canada 1957; England 1961; Head of Science Department, Methodist School; Canada 1975; retired 1999; m. Jacqueline; had issues: five children [s.n.].
Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, April 14, 1956, p.868, Obituary. The Heard Family Name Index [internet]. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1936. Hong Kong Government, Report by the Chairman (Mr. W.J. Carie) of the Shanghai Refugees Committee 1937. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, 1932, October 7 (#632); 1933, March 24 (#188); 1934, March 2 (#144), March 16 (#200), July 13 (#532), October 5 (#743); 1936, January 26 (#576); 1937, August 6 (#543); 1939, January 20 (#64), July 21 (#582), August 4 (#628); 1940, January 26 (#105); 1941, May 2 (#521). RTHK › History › Classics Channel [internet]. Supplement to the London Gazette, October 12, 1945, p.5015. The United Church of Canada Maritime Conference 2013, Retirees and Jubilarians of 2013. Ure, Gavin, Governors, Politics and the Colonial Office: Public Policy in Hong Kong 1918-58, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012.
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