Hugo Eric FOY [1903-1966]
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Hugo Eric Foy was an employee of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation who was first posted to the East in 1925.
He married Enid Joyce Lidderdale on September 8, 1936. The couple had four children, one of whom died in infancy, one of whom was born in 1939, another during the Japanese occupation, and the last in 1951.
After the surrender to the Japanese in December 1941, he was one of the bankers who was kept outside Stanley Camp to liquidate their banks. He and his wife and daughter lived at the Sun Wah Hotel, and Foy is known to have been active in raising illegal funds for relief work. According to Frank King, he was arrested while in Stanley, so he was presumably sent there with the other uninterned bankers in June/July 1943. He was sent to Stanley Prison and towards the end of the war transferred to a prison in Canton.
After the war he was posted to Shangahi, Chungking, Malaya and Borneo. He retired to New Zealand in 1955 and died in a car accident in 1966.
Sources:
Birth, death, children, later career: http://www.lidderdale.com/gen026.html
Illegal fund raising: Maurice Collis, Wayfoong, 1965, 228
Arrested in Stanley: Frank King, History of the HKSBC, Volume 3, 1988, 624
East in 1925: King, 612
- Hugo Eric FOY [1903-1966] spouse of Enid Joyce FOY (née LIDDERDALE) [1911-1985]
- Hugo Eric FOY [1903-1966] parent of Enid Frances FOY [1942- ]
