Aubrey Vernon GREAVES [1886-1971] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Aubrey Vernon GREAVES [1886-1971]

Names
Given: 
Aubrey Vernon
Family: 
Greaves
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1886-01-06
Birthplace (town, state): 
Barbados
Birthplace (country): 
Death
Date: 
c.1971-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Captain Aubrey Vernon Greaves moved from the West Indies to Canada in 1906. In 1916 he garduated from the University of Toronto in Medicine, and saw medical service in France  in the last months of WW1. He joined the Colonial Medical Service in 1925 and in 1930 was appointed Director of the Pathological Institute at Hong Kong University.

In December, 1941 he served as part of the Nursing Detachment of the HKVDC and after the surrender was interned in Stanley. He was repatriated to Toronto in 1943 and worked on nutritional medicine there. His official retirement from Hong Kong was in 1947.

Sources:

http://camc.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/captain-aubrey-vernon-greaves/

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WBx6McA35iYC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=aubrey+vernon+greaves+hong+kong&source=bl&ots=xJmcMg8sjM&sig=O6fcuTcon5VTXfTJSM0SUBzckjU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6IUYU4_xD62M7Aaek4CgCQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=aubrey%20vernon%20greaves%20hong%20kong&f=false

Note: Some sources give 1944 as the year of his repatriation but it seems more likely he went with the other Canadians in 1943, perhaps taking up his post in Toronto in 1944.

 

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 Canada  CEF WWI Personnel Files

Aubrey Vernon Greaves  born 6 January 1886 Barbados BWI

Marriage St Paul's Church Halifax Nova Scotia Canada 25 January 1922 (Province of Nova Scotia Marriage Index)

Passenger List 1954 Liverpool to Barbados

Aubrey Vernon Greaves age 68 travelling unaccompanied to country of future permanent residence