Escapers Serial No. E/5
Name and Rank: Lt. R.B. GOODWIN
Unit: R. N. Z. N. V. R.
Date of Capture: 25 Dec. 41.
Date of Escape: 17 Jul. 44.
Date of arrival in British hands : 3 Aug. 44.
Billy served in the HKVDC, then became a Prisoner of War after the surrender. He was shipped to Japan along with many other POWs, and died there in 1945.
This information, along with dates of birth & death, taken from page 26 of Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley, by Geoffrey Charles Emerson. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1943
The GRIPSHOLM POW repatriation ship has been listed in a number of recent Hong Kong POW references recently. Location of image unknown. <Read more ...>
Ernest Hillas Williams was from a Church of Ireland family from Cork (Eire). He entered the Colonial Civil Service as an administrator, eventually becoming Puisne Judge and then Assistant Attorney General.
He was a sergeant in the HKVDC, imprisoned first in Shamshuipo and then Innoshima Camp (Japan).
After the war he became Chief Justice of the British Borneo Territories. <Read more ...>
John Arthur Gaunt was a brilliant physicist - 'the Gaunt factor' is a formula still used in astrophysics.
He graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity, Cambridge in 1926 and began a period of research. His specialism was the new field of Quantum Mechanics, then entering its greatest periods - he probably attended the first course of lectures given by Paul Dirac, now considered one of the finest physicists of all time. <Read more ...>
