William Poy, the Glossary
William George Poy, MM (17 May 1907 – 3 February 2002) was an Australian-born Canadian civil servant and businessman of Chinese descent.[1]
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17 relations: Adrienne Clarkson, Australia, Chiltern, Victoria, Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao, Governor General of Canada, Hakka people, Hong Kong, Lance corporal, Military Medal, Neville Poy, Ontario, Ottawa, Royal Hong Kong Regiment, Toronto, University of Ottawa, Victoria (state), World War II.
- British colonial army soldiers
- Businesspeople from New South Wales
- Businesspeople from Victoria (state)
- Canadian recipients of the Military Medal
Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson (born February 10, 1939) is a Hong Kong–born Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served from 1999 to 2005 as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since Canadian Confederation. William Poy and Adrienne Clarkson are Canadian people of Chinese descent.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Chiltern, Victoria
Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, in the northeast of the state between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Shire of Indigo.
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Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao
The Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao (Consulat général du Canada à Hong Kong et Macao) represents Canada in the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China.
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Governor General of Canada
The governor general of Canada (gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal representative of the.
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Hakka people
The Hakka, sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan, a Han Chinese dialect spoken in Jiangxi province.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Lance corporal
Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many English-speaking armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organisations.
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Military Medal
The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land. William Poy and military Medal are Recipients of the Military Medal.
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Neville Poy
Neville George Poy, OC, FRCS(C), FACS (Chinese: 伍衛權; Cantonese Ńgh Waih-Kyùhn; born October 29, 1934, in British Hong Kong), is a Canadian philanthropist, photographer and retired plastic surgeon. William Poy and Neville Poy are Canadian people of Chinese descent.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
Ottawa
Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.
Royal Hong Kong Regiment
The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) (RHKR(V)), formed in May 1854, was a local auxiliary militia force funded and administered by the colonial Government of Hong Kong. Its powers and duties were mandated by the Royal Hong Kong Regiment Ordinance. During the Imperial age, home defence units were raised in various British colonies with the intention of allowing regular army units tied up on garrison duty to be deployed elsewhere.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa (Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
British colonial army soldiers
- Adekunle Fajuyi
- Alexander Oppenheim
- Alfred Shout
- Alhaji Grunshi
- Amoako Atta I
- Amon Kotei
- Babafemi Ogundipe
- Basil Blackett (RAF officer)
- Benedicto Kiwanuka
- C. G. Finch-Davies
- Dedan Kimathi
- Douglas Wilmer
- Edmund O'Toole
- Edwin Gordon Blackmore
- Emmanuel Cole
- Ferdinand Schiess
- Frank William Baxter
- Fred Kubai
- Frederick Booth
- Gert Adendorff
- Herbert Stephen Henderson
- Herman Albrecht
- Horace Edward Ramsden
- Horace Martineau
- Ian Wallace (ornithologist)
- Idi Amin
- J. E. S. de Graft-Hayford
- Jibrell Ali Salad
- John Danaher (VC)
- John James Clements
- John Shaul
- Joseph Arthur Ankrah
- Nigel Leakey
- Ofori Atta I
- Paul Ngei
- Peter Brown (VC)
- Peter Dennis
- Quah Chow Cheung
- Robert George Scott
- Roy Campbell (poet)
- Seth Anthony
- Thomas Lane (VC)
- Tito Okello
- William Baldock (Somerset cricketer)
- William Poy
Businesspeople from New South Wales
- Alfred Edments
- Bob Ingham
- Charles Garland (Australian politician)
- Chris McDiven
- Craig Gore
- David Stewart Dawson
- Dick Estens
- Edward Warren (politician)
- Elizabeth Macarthur
- Ewen Wallace Cameron
- Frederick Smythe Willis
- George Varley
- Henry Zouch (police officer)
- Isadore Samuel Emanuel
- James Fearon (businessman)
- John Beveridge (mayor)
- John Ingham (businessman)
- Mick Fabar
- Norman Taylor (basketball)
- Reg Kermode
- Vincent Wardell
- Walter Randolph Carpenter
- William Nicholas Willis
- William Poy
Businesspeople from Victoria (state)
- Andrew Wilson (businessman)
- Bob Ansett
- Brian Cook (football administrator)
- David Crawford (businessman)
- Fletcher Jones (Australian entrepreneur)
- Frank Costa
- Frank McEncroe
- George Coles (entrepreneur)
- George Skellerup
- Jesse Carlsson
- John Bartlett (tennis)
- John Boyd Watson
- Kate Duncan (music executive)
- Malcolm Eccles
- Mrs A. Seager
- Paul Bassat
- Peter Bartels
- Ralph Doubell
- Ray Evans (Australian businessman)
- Robert Crichton-Brown
- Vincent Wardell
- Will Fowles
- William Anderson (theatre)
- William Poy
- Xavier Di Petta
Canadian recipients of the Military Medal
- Bullet Joe Simpson
- Charles Henry Byce
- Charles Smith Rutherford
- Claude Nunney
- Cooper Smeaton
- Dominic Patrick
- Doug Collins (journalist)
- Douglas McNish
- Dwight Johnson (politician)
- Edith Campbell
- F. F. Worthington
- Francis Pegahmagabow
- Frederick Wilkinson
- George Burdon McKean
- George Fraser Kerr
- George Kennedy (Scottish footballer)
- George Mullin (VC)
- Gordon Shrum
- Harold Griffith
- Harold Leslie Edwards
- Henry Norwest
- Jimmy Montgomerie
- Joe Keeper
- Johnson Paudash
- Joseph Gregory (sniper)
- Joseph Kaeble
- Masumi Mitsui
- Michael James O'Rourke
- Moe Hurwitz
- Norman MacKenzie (academic)
- Punch Broadbent
- Raphael Zengel
- Royce Coleman Dyer
- Samuel Lewis Honey
- Stanley Dudka
- Thomas Seller Wallace
- Tommy Prince
- Wilfred Sénéchal
- William Henry Metcalf
- William Hutt (actor)
- William Merrifield
- William Poy
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poy
Also known as Poy, William.