Paul O BRIEN [????-????]
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Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2013-12-28 16:40
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
Father Paul O'Brien was an Irish Jesuit priest.
During the December 1941 hostilities he worked in Billetting Control. He performed the burial service for Volunteer Maxwell in the grounds of St John's Cathedral. (Thomas Ryan, Jesuits Under Fire in the Siege of Hong Kong, 1944, 25, 154)
He lived for tne first part of the occupation with other Jesuits at St. Paul's Hospital and one source describes him as 'Chaplain of the French Hospital at Causeway Bay' in April 1942. (Nathan Greenfield The Damned, 2010, Location 3736).
