Paul Vernon REVELEY [c.1912-2017]

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Submitted by David on Thu, 2016-09-29 15:47

Names

Given:

Paul Vernon

Family:

Reveley

Sex:

Male

Status:

Deceased

Birth

Date:

c.1912-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Death

Date:

2017-03-12

He is listed on page J102 of the 1939 Blue Book as working in the government's Wireless and Broadcasting Department as a Wireless Engineer. He started work there on 2nd Dec 1938.

Brian Edgar writes:

One of the technicians sent out of Camp on August 10, 1945 was Paul Reveley, who had once been personal technical assistant to John Logie Beard:

https://rts.org.uk/article/pioneering-engineer-recalls-first-days-tv

This group were sent to Ma Tau-wai camp in Kowloon and from there he was involved in the efforts to restore radio communication between Hong Kong and the outside world.

Judging from post 6 on this thread he is still alive at the age of 104:

http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?action=recent;display=10

Tags:

WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp