Surname Index Contact Home| Born: | 1916 |
| Father: | William George Otway |
| Mother: | Dorothy Purdon |
| Education: | R.M.A.,Woolwich |
| Occupation: | Army Officer |
| Updated: | 24 Dec 2000 |
Caesar Edward was known as `Tinker'. He went to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. As a Captain he was the last British officer to surrender in Hong-Kong. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC). He escaped from the Japanese but was re-captured. He spent the rest of the War in a Prisoner-of-War camp in Japan. In the late fifties/early sixties he retired from the Army and joined the Ministry of Defence as a Civil Servant Engineer.
He married ----------- ,whose parents were Russian, naturalised British. They had one daughter.
ID: 37 Generated by GedTree on 27 Aug 2002
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