Yung Sam CHEUNG [????-1943] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Yung Sam CHEUNG [????-1943]

Names
Given: 
Yung Sam
Family: 
Cheung
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Death
Date: 
1943-10-29
Cause of death: 
Execution

BAAG Roll of Honour.

Report of Japanese court-martial October 1943:  Cheung Yung Sam was a mechanic employed at Kowloon shipbuilding yard.  He was approached about March 1943 by a near relative Lui Ka Yan and requested to make a report on conditions in the shipbuilding yard.  Although he knew this involved espionage activities on behalf of the enemy, he agreed, and on several occasions investigated and reported on the personnel in the shipbuilding yard and on the ships which were undergoing repairs there. 

Sentenced to death - executed on 29th October 1943.

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