Note that it is quite large (1600px wide) so that individual faces can be seen. An even larger version is available on request.
Correspondence in 2017 with Tony Banham (author) points toward Kowloon/Sham Shui Po. He notes that the tea box at the left of the photo points toward a British colony as the item would be out of place in Japan.
This photo was discussed on our Facebook group: Hong Kong Veterans Tribute in November 2020, and perhaps other times as well.
L to R: Lt. Leonard Corrigan, Lt. Dick Maze, Lt. Alex Black, Lt. Tom Blackwood.
Scene: Main road Sham Shui Po Camp. Large concrete building in background: "Jubilee Bldg", pre-war Officers' Quarters.
Email received in Oct '09 from Caron Ladds Senechal, daughter of William John Ladds states that he is the person sitting in the front row directly in front of William Tuppert (Tuppert denoted with "X").
Email received from Virginia Winters in Oct '09 identified Wurm VJ as her uncle.
Caption below copied from "Roll Call" (1980, Vol 4:2). Updated from a photo caption received in an email from Rudy Chaing in November 2022
Grenadiers at Sendai 2 of 28 August, 1945. Photo courtesy Dick Wilson. Hoping we are correct, they are:
Back row: Morris Peterson, Dick Wilson, John Pollock, George Peterson, Fred English, Tom Mulvaney, Jim Furey, Chuck Bradshaw, Frank Drier, Rix, Al MacTier, Sid Vale.
Middle row: Walter Slovinsky, Soren Paulson, Ed Shayler, Eddie St. Germain
Front row: "Dolly" Davis, Beaton, George "Sailor" Morgan, George Temple, Fred Poitras, Tom Haskayne
Front row centre: "Ferdinand the Bull".
(Photo submitted by Gerry Tuppert)
"The man in the upper left, back row, standing was a British Regimental Seargent Major.He got a Japanese soldier to take the picture.
The men in this picture were mostly cooks in the camp, and were Australian. The oriental fellows were British soldiers in the Hong Kong Volunteers."
(Photo submitted by Gerry Tuppert)
Sep '09: "Alec" Archibald changed to "Alex" - email from daughter, Wendy
Sgt Emile Bernard is second from left, front row (submitted by Lysande Bisson, granddaughter in Dec 2011)
Mrs M Holliday
(received by email Jan '07)
From Lindsay Marmen ( Thomson):
My grandfather, Captain Andrew Cecil Meredith Thomson was over in Hong Kong with the Royal Rifles ,Quebec Regiment, so I found your web site very interesting. He was better known as Pop because he was the oldest at the age of 55. The name stuck for the rest of his life.
Even his children used it. He became the paymaster. We still have his book on how much supplies cost, addresses of fellow officers, drawings and a short diary, delivered mail etc.
I thought I would identify him in the fourth last photo from the bottom of the group photos page. He is in the back row center with the hat on.
His only comment about his time in camp was that he would walk around the compound as much as he could to stay in shape so that in case of escape he could keep up with the younger men. He continued his exercise when he did reach home in Quebec City. He passed away in the year 1975 and his presence is still felt by all his children , grandchildren and great grandchildren to whom we try to instill his memories.
(received by email Jan 06)
From Susan Reed via email in June 2015 " I do not believe the soldier in the middle is my uncle, James Graydon Heath (E29915). I think he is the third Findlay brother, Earl (Albert Earl Findlay, born 1913). I forwarded the picture to my aunt (Graydon Heath's sister) who identified that third man as Earl. She says that Earl started out in the Royal Rifles, but transferred afterwards."