The Escape of the 2nd MTB Flotilla

20th Oct 1929 Promoted from Pilot Officer to Flying Officer (with seniority of 13th Oct. 1929).

Max Oxford 27040 Flight Lieutenant to be Squadron Leader (temporary).1st Sept. 1941.

Squadron Leader Max Oxford escaped with the party onboard HMS Cornflower's launch which was shot up in Aberdeen South channel.

Max spent the rest of the war as air attache at the Chungking Embassy where he met his wife to be Audrey, and after a whirlwind romance they were married in January 1944.

"Max was one of the first wave of British administrators to return to Hong Kong after the Japanese occupation ended in August 1945. He arrived in early October, to manage the restoration of civil air service at Kai Tak airport, and found a territory devastated by war and occupation, but one that would get back on its feet remarkably quickly."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wing Commander Max Oxford Admiral Chan Chak K.B.E. & Commander Henry Hsu O.B.E. 17th March 1944

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mayor [of Canton] Chan visiting Max Oxford now the Deputy Director of Civil Aviation in Hong Kong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back: Supt Bill Robinson I.P., W. O. William M Wright HKRNVR, Capt Peter Macmillan R.A.,Capt Reginold Guest 1st Mdsx HQ staff, Coxswain Leung Chuen, Ted Ross B.M.I.

2nd: David MacDougall B.M.I., Admiral Chan Chak, Major Arthur Goring staff, Squadron Leader Max Oxford

1st: Merchant Marine Holgar Christiansen, Lt-Cmdr Henry Heng Hsu

 

 

 

 

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