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Gordon KING [1900-1991]

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Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-02-18 22:30
Names
Given: 
Gordon
Family: 
King
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1900-07-07
Birthplace (town, state): 
London
Birthplace (country): 
England
Death
Date: 
c.1991-10-01 (Day is approximate)
Tags: 
those not interned
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Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2013-02-21 23:28.

I'm pretty sure he was never in Stanley. He began his escape from the Univresity on February 10, 1942.

http://gwulo.com/node/9989

Submitted by David on Thu, 2013-02-21 23:33.

Thanks Brian, good catch. I've corrected his record.

Regards, David

Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2014-03-19 01:25.

Born July 1900 in London. He completed his medical training in 1924 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1926, leaving to work in China soon after. He married Mary Ellison in Peking in 1927.

He was appointed to the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Hong Kong University in 1938.

He left Hong Kong for Perth in 1956.

Source: Clifford Matthews and Oswald Cheiung, Dispersal and Renewal, 1998, 444-445

 

For his escape from occupied Hong Kong see

http://battleforhongkong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/professor-gordon-king-escapes-from.html

Submitted by David on Wed, 2014-03-19 17:40.

I've added dates of birth & death from Philip's article.

Submitted by Lawrence Tsui on Thu, 2014-03-20 03:59.

Paul Ka-cheung Tsui said had he met Prof. King first before Lindsay Ride, he would have become a HKU staff instead of joining the nascent BAAG.  He went to Kukong (Shaoguan) in March 1942, armed with his HKU War Time Degree certificate and wearing the HKU emblem on his blazer, looking for work.  He said Gordon King was organising HKU in exile in Kukong at that time.  Ride was organising the MI9 unit.  Paul Tsui was engaged as a civilian Secretary of Ride's unit under the pseudo-name of Tsui On-shing; hence 'TOSKA' in the BAAG telegrams.  It turned out to be the best of time for him during the worst of time...

Submitted by moddsey on Fri, 2021-01-01 17:31.

Prof. Gordon King's escape can be read here Scroll to Page 2 of the China Mail dated 27 February 1946.