Thomas MAYCOCK (aka Tommy) [c.1917-1946]
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Submitted by jill on Wed, 2012-01-25 03:55
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
Connections:
- Thomas MAYCOCK (aka Tommy) [c.1917-1946] child of John Henry MAYCOCK [1878-1954]
- Thomas MAYCOCK (aka Tommy) [c.1917-1946] child of Yoshino MAYCOCK [c.1881-1952]
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The Maycock family
Tommy Maycock
Hi Jill
Have just seen your query - quite by chance!I am Tommy's niece!
Tommy Maycock
Well, what a surprise to hear from you, therapy1810! Thank you for responding. Which Maycock was your father (or mother)? I’m not sure that Carl Smith registered all the members of your family. It seems that my uncle, Leslie Warren, (1900-1943) must have been a close friend of your family - perhaps of Tommy. Do you know the original Hong Kong address of John and Yoshino? Which country do you live in? As I know nothing about the Maycocks except what I have posted above, it would be good to have a chat!
Jill
Ernest Maycock
Hello therapy1810
In case you ever come back to Gwulo, I wonder if, by any chance Tommy's brother, Ernest Maycock, is in the HKVD Signals Christmas photo of 1939 that I posted on
http://gwulo.com/node/17124
I see from the Carl Smith card quoted above, that, like my uncle Leslie Warren, Ernest was in the HKVD Corps in 1939. I don't know if he was in the Signals Corp though. Ernest was in the New Year Honours list of 31 December 1983. Let me repeat the text of the card again, as he deserves an individual post: "Ernest Richard Maycock, joined H.K. Volunteer Defence Corps in 1939. Fought in the defence of H.K. and was taken prisoner at Chung Hom Kok on H.K. Island on Christmas Eve 1941. He was prisoner in Shamshui Po Camp 1941-late 1943, and in Japan from 1943 until the liberation of H.K. Joined the Govt. in Nov. 1946 and is due to retire at the end of the month." SCMP Dec. 22, 1946. There may be a line missing from the photocopy of the card, as it should say what honour he received. Is Ernest perhaps your father?
Jill
The Maycock family
Henry Ching writes:
There were four brothers of Thomas who served in the HKVDC. John was in the Field Company Engineers and Ernest was in No.2 Company; I don’t know the units for Robert and William. All but Robert were sent to Japan in the Fifth Draft.
Before the war The Maycocks lived in Happy Valley, in a flat in Wang Tak Street. I think the building was called “Village Villas” – it was close by where I lived at No.9 Village Road.
Maycock and Warren families
Thank you, Henry, for this information. As I've said in a previous post, my uncle Leslie Warren, an engineer like John, apparently stayed with the Maycocks at some point after his own family left for England in 1938. There may be another connection between the Warrens and the Maycocks in that both families seemingly had a base in the Isle of Wight. The four Warren children spent their holidays with an aunt in Shanklin, Isle of Wight during the years that they were at school in England. Tommy Maycock, after internment in Stanley, died in Ventnor, Isle of Wight in 1946 aged only 29 (SCMP Dec. 22 1946). Tony Banham mentions in his War Diary that the Maycocks were badly treated as prisoners on account of their Japanese mother.
Jill
Willie Maycock
Hi, Willie Maycock was a family friend and also later, a neighbour. He was an executive with Cold Storage for many years until bad health and age made for retirement. He was in Hong kong until the '60s. After that I do not know.
dennis Quong
Willie Maycock
Hello Dennis. I'm sorry that I must have missed your post about Willie Maycock. As it happens, I've just received a copy of my uncle Leslie Warren's last letter to his wife from Hong Kong. It's dated 2nd May 1941. In it he writes: "I'm still with the Maycocks, Eva and Willie, and they look after me like a brother. I've put on 10 lbs since I came here!"
As I've said in my previous post, I understand that Willie was a POW and, like his brothers, treated badly on account of his Japanese mother. Thank you for posting the information about his career and the fact that he was in Hong Kong until the '60s.
Jill