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Note for: Hugh Malet, 1098 - 1165
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Individual Note: -inherited Enmore from Cousin William. Sometimes listed as 'Hugh Fitchet'.
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Note for: Henry Charles Ralph Fulford-Williams, ABT 1913 - ABT 1995
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Individual Note: School Cheltenham Coll. BA Selwyn Coll. Cambs 1939. Daily Mirror
1935. Colonial Administrative Service, Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1940-
1948. Taken prisoner by the Japanese on 8th December 1941 the day
after Pearl Harbour attack, released 2nd September 1945. Kings
Commendation for Brave Conduct. Administrative Service in Uganda.
The Japanese landed in, I believe, January 1941 and took the District Officer (HCR Fulford-Williams) prisoner. He was transported back to Tokyo where he was a celebrity for some little while as being one of the first Allied prisoners of war to arrive in Japan. The island became a flying boat base, staffed by about 50.
List of nine men held captive at Zentsuji BEFORE the arrival of the Guam prisoners. All other men arrived after Guam POWs arrived. The seven Coast Watchers from New Zealand captured in the Makin Atoll were: Captured on Bikati: 1. Michael Menzies, Pvt., NZEF, and his brother.... 2. Jack M. Menzies, Pvt., NZEF 3. John M. Jones, a civilian Radio Operator Captured on Little Makin (Makin Miang): 4. Pvt. Basil (Pat) Were 5. Pvt. L.E.H. Muller 6. Cpl. M.P. McQuinn- actually a civilian but retroactively made Army Corporals to prevent execution as a spy. Captured on Abaiang: 7. Cpl. Syd.R. Wallace- also a civilian but retroactively made Army Corporals to prevent execution as a spy. Captured in the village of Butaritari: 8. Charles Fulford-Williams, Civil Administrator American Captured in China: 9. RM1c Arthur H. Griffith, USN, American Consulate, Tsingtao The Coast Watchers and Fulford-Williams were held in a tin shed at On Chongs wharf on Butaritari until transferred aboard a Japanese minesweeper to Juliet Island on 27 Dec 1942. From Juliet Island, the men were sent to Yokohama in hold of the Yamagiri Maru. Kevin Menzies, son of Michael Menzies, Pvt., NZEF, stated in letter of 9 June 2000, "My father was captured [as a Soldier/Coast Watcher in the Gilbert Islands] on the islet of Bikati, the northern tip of the Makin Atoll, on 10 Dec 1941 and [later] began his incarceration in the University of Life at Zentsuji. He and his comrades, including his brother Jack M. Menzies, were among the first Allied prisoners in Japan, arriving in Yokohama on 7 Jan 1942. "The American Marine from Tsingtao [Griffith] joined them on 10 Jan 1942. When he would talk about [his experiences], (not often) he would tell of how he was in Zentsuji when in the middle of the night he was [wakened] by the Marines from Guam entering the camp. From then on, Dad built up strong bonds with these men which never left him. He told me, not long before his death, that often at night he lay awake and pictured all of their faces." Sources: Gillespie, Oliver A., The Pacific, War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, Wellington, NZ, 1952, p 233; letters from Kevin Menzies., son of Michael Menzies.
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Note for: Henry Frank Fulford-Williams, 1885 - 1966
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Individual Note: Bachelor of Divinity, Cambridge. India Ecclesiatical Establishment.
Chaplain in Bengal 1913-1935.
India Office Records: Public & Judicial Department [Access Conditions] Open Public and Judicial Departmental Papers: Annual Files - ref. IOR/L/PJ/7 Departmental Papers: Annual Files FILE - 3507; Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment: retirement of the Rev H. Fulford Williams - ref. IOR/L/PJ/7/732 - date: 28 Sep 1934-16 Jul 1936
Henry Frank Fulford Williams (1885-1966) was an Anglican clergyman and antiquary. He was the son of Henry Chisold Williams, and married Violet, daughter of Henry Mallet Veale of Passaford, Devon, in 1913. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, reading history and later theology. He was Lady Kay scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1907, and became a deacon in 1909 and priest in 1910. He was then ex-curate of Dawlish, Devon, 1909-1911 and Horsleydown, Southwark 1911-1913. He was awarded his MA in 1912. He then embarked on a varied career as a clergyman, mainly abroad. He was temporary chaplain to the Forces between 1917 and 1918. He served as chaplain all over India during the period 1913-1934, rarely staying in a post for more than a year at a time, before returning to England as curate of Northam with Westward Hoe, North Devon, 1935-1936, and Canon Frome with Munsley, Herefordshire, 1936-1937. He then became chaplain in Lisbon between 1937-1945, when he was also honorary chaplain at the British Embassy. He then became rector of Ideford parish, Devon between 1945 and 1956, during which period he was also Perpetual Curate of neighbouring Luton parish, Devon. He achieved a Bachelor in Divinity in 1951. In 1956 he presumably retired, and is listed in the 1966 edition of Crockford’s Clerical Directory as living in Exeter, Devon. He had two sons and one daughter, and died in 1966.
He was also the author of numerous unpublished notes on the history of Devon parishes (held at the Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter), and was editor of the Indian Church Directory in 1920.
Flew from London-New York nov. 8, 1952 on Pan American Airways.
Individual Note: Jocelyn Tongue, Charles Fulford-Williams, Rev. Henry Frank Fulford-Williams, Robert Lorimer Fulford-Williams, Mavis Tongue, Paignton, Devon, 1939