BAAG names and code-numbers

Elizabeth Ride has kindly sent a list of additional British Army Aid Group (BAAG) numbers, and the people they refer to.

In most cases these people were BAAG agents, working for the British in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation. They were referred to in written messages by number rather than name, for added security in case the message was intercepted by the Japanese. eg it was safer to send a message by runner that "62 was going to be in Shum Chun on Thursday" than include 62's name.

I've added these new names to the names we already had, and the combined list is shown below. Elizabeth hopes the list will uncover additional information about these brave individuals, and writes "This list is very sketchy and I hope your readers might be able to add to it, correct it, or even corroborate it."

A couple of notes about the format:

• "(?)" - Where a number has a question mark, eg "BAAG No. 9 (?)", Elizabeth doesn't have verifiable proof that this number belongs to the named person. However the circumstantial evidence suggests it is true.
• "i", "ii". In some cases, numbers were re-used, eg No. 51 was originally used for Mak Lum, and later used for Yeung Por. In that case I've added a suffix ".i" for the first person to use this number, and ".ii" for the second.

And in the list below you can:

• Click on any of the column headings to sort the list by that value.
• Click on any person's family name to visit their page.

Alias / nickname	Given	Family	Maiden	DoB	DoD
BAAG No. 1	Lum	Mak
BAAG No. 2 / 歐輝	Fai	Au		1910
BAAG No. 3		?
BAAG No. 4	Wah	Ho
BAAG No. 5	Chiu	Lam
BAAG No. 6		?
BAAG No. 7 / 胡榮	Wing	Wu
BAAG No. 8		?
BAAG No. 9 (?)	Kwei-yu	Yeung
BAAG No. 10	Tak-sun	Lau
BAAG No. 11		?
BAAG No. 12	Percy Davies	Cheng		1916
BAAG No. 14 / 49.ii, 葉錦榮	Kam-wing	Ip		1913	1944
BAAG No. 15.i	Maxie	Holroyd
BAAG No. 15.ii / BAAG No. 50.ii	Chak-po	Lai
BAAG No. 16		?
BAAG No. 17	Sau-Tak	Chan
BAAG No. 18		?
BAAG No. 19	Joseph / Yiu-Sang	Tsang
BAAG No. 20		?
BAAG No. 21 / 鄭淮廉 / Cheng Wai-lim / Khan / Mo Lo Cheng	William	Cheng		1913
BAAG No. 22	Chiu-Fan	Chan
BAAG No. 23		?
BAAG No. 24		?
BAAG No. 25 / 陳養	Yeung	Chan
BAAG No. 26	Man-kai	Hui		1916
BAAG No. 27	Sang	Yip
BAAG No. 28	Tak	Yip
BAAG No. 29	Man-shui	Lau
BAAG No. 30		?
BAAG No. 31		?
BAAG No. 32		?
BAAG No. 33		?
BAAG No. 34 Code name 'Cyclist'	Foo	Yip
BAAG No. 35	Hing	Wan
BAAG No. 36	Teng-kee	Lau
BAAG No. 37	Kwok-tok	Leung
BAAG No. 38		?
BAAG No. 39		?
BAAG No. 40 (?)	Simon / Ming-sai	Lau		1910
BAAG No. 41 / Shiner / Shinah	F. W.	Wright
BAAG No. 42		Ah Mui
BAAG No. 43	Kwok-yee	Pang		1915
BAAG No. 44 / BAAG No. 74 (?) / 譚藹勵	Osler	Thomas
BAAG No. 44 / 李立	Lup	Lee		1915
BAAG No. 45 (?)	Ho-ka	Chak
BAAG No. 46	William / Kwong-Sheung	Wong
BAAG No. 47		Alim Din
BAAG No. 48	Tak-Hing	Tsang
BAAG No. 49.i	Fook	Lau
BAAG No. 50 / 鄭根	Bill	Chong		1916
BAAG No. 51.i	Lam	Mak
BAAG No. 51.ii		Yeung Por
BAAG No. 52.i		?
BAAG No. 52.ii	Betty	Woo
BAAG No. 53.i		?
BAAG No. 53.ii	Shiu-hing	Mui
BAAG No. 54.i		?
BAAG No. 54.ii	Kwok-yiu	Lam
BAAG No. 55.i		?
BAAG No. 55.ii	Tung-sang	Li
BAAG No. 56.i	Mark, Shing-cheung	Tsui		1918
BAAG No. 56.ii	Wai-fan	Chan
BAAG No. 57.i / Septimus		G.M-Butt
BAAG No. 57.ii	Man-Cho	Law
BAAG No. 58	Fo-yau	Wong
BAAG No. 59	Fai-wan	Chan
BAAG No. 60.i	George	Kotwall			1943
BAAG No. 60.ii	Kwong-tin	Yan
BAAG No. 61	?	?
BAAG No. 61.ii	Hung	Chung
BAAG No. 62	Vincent / Wing-Sin	Young		1918
BAAG No. 63	Joseph / Yuk-cheung	Tsang / Chang
BAAG No. 64	Hung-Sui	Lo		1916
BAAG No. 65	Paul Ka-cheung	Tsui		1916	1994
BAAG No. 66	Benjamin	?
BAAG No. 67.i	King Hung	Wu
BAAG No. 67.ii	Po-man	Cheung
BAAG No. 68 / 雷家仁 / Lui Kar-Yin / Lui Kar-yan / Li Fong / Ip Ming-yan	Ka-Yin	Lui
BAAG No. 69		?
BAAG No. 70.i	Po-sum	Ng
BAAG No. 70.ii / 吳德彰 / Ng Tak-cheung	Tak-cheong	Ng
BAAG No. 71.i / BAAG codename "Nitram" / 馬乃光	Nelson / Nai-kwong	Ma		1914
BAAG No. 71.ii / James Kim	Cheuk-ming	Yan			1943
BAAG No. 72		?
BAAG No. 73	David	Lam		1923
BAAG No. 75 / Chicken Lee / 李耀標	Francis Yiu-piu	Lee		1916	1966
BAAG No. 76.i	Yuk	Chan
BAAG No. 76.ii (?) / "Darkie"	Ting-sang	Li		1917
BAAG No. 76.iii / 謝滌君	Dickuan	Tse		1900
BAAG No. 77	Kwok-Kwong	Chan
BAAG No. 78 / LIU Yau	You	Li
BAAG No. 79	Kwong-fai	Yip
BAAG No. 80	Yuk-wah	Ho
BAAG No. 81	Fat	Leung
BAAG No. 82	Kam	Leung
BAAG No. 83 (?)	Wah	Ng
BAAG No. 84	Cheung	Li
BAAG No. 85	Ying-kwan	Chow
BAAG No. 86 (?)	Heep	Lee
BAAG No. 87 (?)	Ting-hoi	Tsang
BAAG No. 88 / 陳漢基	Hon-kee	Chan
BAAG No. 89		?
BAAG No. 90		?
BAAG No. 92		?
BAAG No. 93		?
BAAG No. 94 / CC	William / K.S.	Mok
BAAG No. 95		?
BAAG No. 96		?
BAAG No. 97	?	?
BAAG No. 98	?	?
BAAG No. 99, 黃作梅	Raymond / Chok-Mui	Wong		1916	1955
BAAG No. 100	S.B.	Tan
BAAG No. 101		?
BAAG No. 102		?
BAAG No. 103		?
BAAG No. 104		?
BAAG No. 105 (?) / 楊守德	Sau-tak	Yeung			1943
BAAG No. 108 (?)	Stern	Ho
BAAG No. 112 / CHAN Wai-Shui	Kai	Chan
BAAG No. 114		?
BAAG No. 121		?
BAAG No. 122		?
BAAG No. 124		?
BAAG No. 128 (?)	G.S.	Ladd
BAAG No. 13 / Septic / Scamp / Nobby / Sir Percy	Percy Selbourne	Selwyn-Clarke		1893	1976
BAAG No. 130 (?)	Saleh	Ibrahim
BAAG No. 210		?
BAAG No. 301		?
BAAG No. 303		?
BAAG No. 305		?
BAAG No. 306		?
BAAG No. 307		?
BAAG No. 500 / Chung Ming / Ming Chung / C.M.	Chung-man	Hui
BAAG No. 501		M.C.
BAAG No. 502 / Saboteur No 1 / King		?
BAAG No. 504	Kam-wong	To
BAAG No. 509		?
BAAG No. 510	Sau-tak	Chan
BAAG No. 511	Hung	Wu
BAAG No. 512		?
BAAG No. 513		?
BAAG No. 516		?
BAAG No. 519 (?)	Cheung-lun	Fung
BAAG No. 530	Yung-han	Sham
BAAG No. 538 / BAAG codename "PL" / Run Chang / 梁潤昌	Y. C.	Liang		1918	1979
BAAG No. 544 (?)	Tui-See	Ho
BAAG No. 568		?
BAAG No. 579 / 'Another'		?
BAAG No. 580		?
BAAG No. 591		?
BAAG No. 865	Chek-kong	Lui
BAAG No. 1066 / Capt. George Jack	Norman	?
BAAG No. 1067	Tung-choi	Cheng
BAAG No. 1068 (?)	Ho-fat	Lam
BAAG No. 1069 (?)	Ping-wah	Au

Thank you to Elizabeth for sharing her research with us. This list is a small part of the Elizabeth Ride Collection, which includes a wealth of information about the BAAG. You can read more about the collection at: http://gwulo.com/node/13968

Elizabeth is always happy to receive inquiries from researchers with questions about the BAAG.