Admiral Chan Chak CN / Flag Lt-Cdr Henry Hsu CN / Cmdr Montague RN / Cmdr Gandy RN / Sq-Ldr Oxford / Maj Goring / Capt Guest / Capt Macmillan /
The Chinese Guerrillas escort the 2nd MTB Flotilla to Waichow
The East River Guerrillas
Some of the escape party's guides under the command of Liang-Yung-Yuan; They knew their back yard very well and although we passed very close to Jap troops they never saw us.
This image is from "Escape from the Blooded Sun" by Freddie Guest ©
The East River Guerrillas. There was somewhere in the region of a hundred guerrillas with woman, children, and dogs. They were utterly silent while escorting the escape party through the Japanese lines.
Liang Yuing Yuan with Buddy Hide during the escape.
Liang had served in the Chinese navy under Admiral Chan;he was an independent guerrilla chief regarded by the Nationalists as a bandit, and the Admiral was able to enlist his aid in conducting them into Free china as far as Kukong by personally vouching for him with the Nationalists.1
SOE agent Mike Kendall went through an ancient blood brother ritual in Waichow with the guerrilla leader Liang-Yuing-Yuan before they departed
Photo from the Ted Ross collection ©
Liang Yuing Yuan's son book signing with Buddy Hide's son in December 2009
- Hong Kong Eclipse by G B Endacott 1978 ISBN 0 19 5803744
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
