Details from John Black's list, updated with details from comments below. Black's list gives Kirby's occupation in 1941 as "Police", and year of birth as 1900. <Read more ...>
My current project is researching the lives of “The Twelve Apostles” and “The Forty Thieves” – i.e. the two groups of Royal Marines recruited to the Hong Kong Police in 1899 and 1900 respectively. Anyone interested in the stories will find them on my Hong Kong Police Ancestors Blog: http://hongkongpoliceancestors.blogspot.co.uk/<Read more ...>
Peter Grant was my father. He was for a time Chief Inspector of Police in Hong Kong (unsure of district) and was awarded a Kings Police Medal in 1933. He returned to UK in 1937 married to Laura Joyce Dobbin some many years younger than himself. My sister was taken with him into a second marriage, and I was adopted at birth a year later in 1940. She and I only got to know about each other in 2011 and are not linked and in contact. <Read more ...>
