Lindsay Tasman Ride

[1] Ride attended three state schools in the country before being awarded a scholarship to Scotch College, Melbourne.

[2] There he took an active interest in sport by participating in rifle shooting, athletics, rowing, cricket and football.

[1] Perhaps because of his natural ability for medical research, he was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Hong Kong on 21 October 1928.

Ride was commissioned in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and was appointed a justice of the peace.

[1] Ride sent his wife and children to Australia in 1938 in anticipation of a Japanese invasion into the British colony.

He became a POW and was held in the prison established by the Japanese at the Sham Shui Po Barracks after Hong Kong capitulated on Christmas Day 1941.

On 9 January 1942, with the help of Hong Kong guerilla forces, he managed to escape to unoccupied Chungking, a feat for which he was appointed O.B.E.

This MI9 unit provided help, medical and otherwise, to POW escapees from Hong Kong while gathering intelligence.

[citation needed] Ride was appointed vice-chancellor to a dilapidated, post-war University of Hong Kong in April 1949.

[citation needed] The Ming-Ai (London) Institute interviewed Ride's daughter as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage project.

Lindsay Ride escaped from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong (i) on 9 January 1942. He reached Huizhou (ii), Kukong (iii), Guilin (iv), and finally arriving at Chongqing (v) on 17 February 1942. The red boundaries denote the Japanese-occupied area in China as of late 1941.