James Albert McCahey

1901 Apr 9 born Enniskillen, Fermanagh

1911 census at Garvary, Castlecoole, Fermanagh

1920 Feb 3 enlisted in RIC as # 70224. Farmer

1920 May 21 posted Kilkenny

1922. Mar 28 disbanded

1922 Mar 29. Enlisted in Palestine Gendarmerie as a Constable

1925 Jun 5 Leaves UK for Shanghai. Police Officer. This seems to be him joining that police force

1935 Mar 21 Arrives California from Shanghai. Police Officer

1936 Apr 12 Arrives California from Shanghai. Police Officer

1936 Apr 28 Arrives in UK from New York. He is a Police officer in China

1940 Nov 1. He is on an official list as an Inspector in B Division

1942 He left the Shanghai Police. His brother Charles Joseph was also in Shanghai Police and he left in 1943

He was briefly interned by the Japanese, but released as an Irish citizen. He went to Australiana d worked for 4 years in Commonwealth Investigations Branch. Then went to Hong Kong

1943 Living in South Australia on Electoral Roll with wife Blanche Elizabeth. She appears to have died in Canada in 1966, so I assume they lived in Canada at some point

1949 he is a Chief Inspector of Police in Hong Kong

1950 Sep 7 back in Australia

1968 On Canberra Electoral Roll

1971 Jun 16 died Canberra

 

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