Ernest Percy SAMMONS (aka Red) [c.1894-1968] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Ernest Percy SAMMONS (aka Red) [c.1894-1968]

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Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2014-06-05 13:42
Names
Given: 
Ernest Percy
Family: 
Sammons
Alias / nickname: 
Red
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1894-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
United States
Death
Date: 
1968-07-16

'Red' Sammons worked for the Kowloon restaurateur E. F. Gingle.

Was he related to - even the father of - Frieda Salmon who was a friend of Barbara Anslow in the 1920s?

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
WW2: interned at Ma Tau Wai camp
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Submitted by David on Thu, 2014-06-05 17:43.

Hi Brian,

I'm not sure which spelling is correct, but in the couple of official references we have for him, his surname is spelled Sammons, eg:

http://gwulo.com/node/7516

http://gwulo.com/node/2623#comment-8287

http://gwulo.com/node/2623#comment-8321

Regards, David

Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2014-06-05 21:28.

Thanks, David. My mind did a reversal and I remembered him as 'Salmon, sometimes wrongly called Sammons'.

I doubt Barbara's worked in the same way.

Submitted by Philip on Thu, 2020-05-07 14:20.

Ernest Percy Sammons is listed on Camp Log with the spelling of "Sammons". There is no date of birth given but age is sated as 46 (I assume as of 1942 when he left camp). He was a US National and was part of Ed Gingles kitchen crew in Camp - "Red Sammons, ex-Navy electrician, who took care of the electrical equipment, stoves and boilers" (George Baxter).  He is not on the Gripsholm Passenger Manifest/List. He appears to have left Camp (Guaranteed out) with Gingles on or around 5th Aug 1942 and I think later interned in Ma Tau Wei Camp (1944). Best regards,  Philip Cracknell

Submitted by annpake on Thu, 2020-05-07 19:51.

Carl Smith Card 138839

SCMP 18 July 1968 Ernest Percy Sammons died 16 July 1968. US Navy retired. Lived in Kong Kong nearly twenty years, Survived by wife Minnie Sammons 

WWII Prisoners of War Ernest P Sammons Residence USA Detaining Country Japan Stanley Camp (Civilians)  Report 20 January 1945 Individual has been reported through sources considered official

US Navy World War II Muster Rolls

Ernest P Simmons (sic) 192 40 11 Date of enlistment is blank Date recieved on board 24 April 1942