T/Capt D R Holmes. Secret Operations, India. Attached BAAG Waichow, China. Member of "Z Force" and later of Recce Unit, Hong Kong. Instructor at training course for Recce Unit Nov 41. During hostilities on Hong Kong operated with Capt Teesdale behind Japanese lines, destroying enemy MT etc. Left New Territores 24 Jan 42, and attached to Oriental Mission, China, then lent to BAAG Jun 42 for whom he has carried out recce in the New Territories where he lived and negotiated with the "red" guerillas. When on leave did part refresher demolition course at Poona Feb 43 before returning to China. Expert Cantonese speaker..
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D R Holmes
From BAAG papers, 1943:
T/Capt D R Holmes. Secret Operations, India. Attached BAAG Waichow, China. Member of "Z Force" and later of Recce Unit, Hong Kong. Instructor at training course for Recce Unit Nov 41. During hostilities on Hong Kong operated with Capt Teesdale behind Japanese lines, destroying enemy MT etc. Left New Territores 24 Jan 42, and attached to Oriental Mission, China, then lent to BAAG Jun 42 for whom he has carried out recce in the New Territories where he lived and negotiated with the "red" guerillas. When on leave did part refresher demolition course at Poona Feb 43 before returning to China. Expert Cantonese speaker..
Sir David Ronald Holmes CMG CBE MC ED JP 1913 - 1981
Born 26 December 1913 Halifax Yorkshire (birth registered Q1 1914)
Died 14 June 1981 Corfu Greece
Married Charlotte Marjorie Fisher 18 July St. Johns Toorak Victoria Australia 31 January 1945
His brother is buried in Stanley Cemetery Hong Kong