- SURNAME
Ride
- FORENAME
Lindsay Tasman (Doc)
- UNIT
British Army Aid Group (MI9)
- RANK
Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- PLACE
China 1942-44
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Indian Army
born 10.10.1898 Newstead,Victoria,Australia
son of William and Eliza Mary (nee Best) Ride
educated Scotch College,Melbourne
enlisted 14.2.1917 38 Bn AIF
Private (3479)
60 Bn AIF in France (twice WIA) 1917-18
invalided out 24.4.1919
educated University of Melbourne
Victorian Rhodes Scholar 1922
educated New College,Oxford,England
worked in Guy's Hospital,London
Qualified Member of Royal College of Surgeons
Licentiate of Royal College of Physicians
Professor of Physiology,University of Hong Kong 1928
commissioned Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
appointed JP
C.O. Hong Kong Field Ambulance 1941
POW 25.12.1941 Hong Kong
escaped to China 9.1.1942
awarded O.B.E. 1942
commissioned 2Lt and promoted Lt Colonel,Indian Army same day
founder and C.O. British Army Aid Group,Chungking (MI9) 1942-45
awarded C.B.E. 1944
Colonel Commandant,Royal Hong Kong Defence Force 1948-62
Vice-Chancellor,University of Hong Kong 1949
Knighted 1962
married Mary Margaret Louise Fenety 30.6.1925 in London (4 children) (dissolved during WW2)
married Violet May Witchell 12.11.1954 Hong Kong
died 17.10.1977 Hong Kong
cremated and ashes buried Old Protestant Cemetery,Macau
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