- SURNAME
Holmes
- FORENAME
David Ronald
- UNIT
British Army aid Group (MI9)
- RANK
Captain
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Military Cross,Member of the Order of the British Empire
- PLACE
Hong Kong 1943
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force
born 26.12.1913 UK
son of Louis James and Emily (nee Sutcliffe) Holmes,Brighouse,Yorkshire
brother of Leslie Benjamin Holmes,Captain HKVDF,KIA 19.12.1941 (1905-41)
educated Bradford Grammar School
graduated Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge
Assistant Sectretary for Chinese Affairs,Hong Kong
Hong Kong Defence Volunteer Force
SOE until surrender 25.12.1941
escaped to China
BAAG (MI9) November 1942
promoted Major 1944
on leave in Australia 1944 until end of war
Provisional Military Government,Hong Kong August 1945 - May 1946
Colonial Secretariat,Hong Kong 1946-47
attended Imperial Defence College,London 1947
Hong Kong Government July 1951 - May 1977
C.B.E. 1962 C.M.G. 1969
Knight Bachelor 1973
married Charlotte Marjorie Fisher 3.11.1945 (1920-2012) (2 sons)
died 14.6.1981 Corfu
British Cemetery,Corfu
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