Cecil Harcourt

Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt GBE KCB (translated to Chinese as 夏 慤; haa6 kok3; 11 April 1892 – 19 December 1959) was a British naval officer.

Harcourt commanded Task Group 111.2 for the reoccupation of Hong Kong with his carriers, three cruisers, four destroyers, a submarine, and mine-sweeping flotillas.

He ordered his carriers' planes to destroy a small number of Japanese suicide motor boats near Hong Kong.

The Union Flag had been produced by an ex-Naval rating who had hidden it in his bedding when Hong Kong was captured and had managed to hide it for the whole period so as to be ready for this occasion.

[4] On 16 September, Harcourt received the surrender of Japan (under Major-General Hisakazu Tanaka and Vice-Admiral Ruitaka Fujitain) in Government House.

[1] Ships (and station) under Harcourt's command included: On 17 April 1913, he assumed the surname "Harcourt-Morris", but this lasted only a short time.

[6] After Evelyn Suart's death in 1950, Harcourt married Stella, widow of Air Commodore David Waghorn, in 1953.