Escape from Hong Kong - The Final Hours

E Cox-Walker HKRNVR (T546)

 

Eric Cox-Walker who had been employed by Jardine Matheson & Company in Hong Kong escaped from Aberdeen on Christmas Day with Commander Montague R.N. onboard the Tug C-410 and joined up with Admiral Chan Chak's MTB escape party at NanAo, deep behind enemy lines in China.

Photo from Buddy Hide's collection©

Waichow 30th December 1940

Eric along with Tel PO Dyer was reprimanded for being 'drunk while scuttling' in NanAo, possibly from the flotilla supply of rum,the daily 'tot.'

He was taken ill and admitted to hospital after traveling up river to Longchuan from Waichow with possible pneumonia along with Duggy Pethick. They caught up with the escape party in Kukong on the 12th January 1942. In Kunming he re-joined Jardines along with Eddy Brazel, Holgar Christiansen, and Allen Marchant.