Quah Chow Cheung

Quah Chow Cheung

Quah Chow Cheung (Chinese: 柯昭璋) was the Colony Commissioner of The Scout Association of Hong Kong from 1950 to 1953, succeeding Nelson Victor Halward. He was the first Chinese Colony Commissioner in Hong Kong Scouting. Before that appointment, he was appointed by Halward as one of two Chinese District Commissioner and cared the development of Scouting in Kowloon and south New Territories of Hong Kong.

Quah was the Group Scout Leader in St. Joseph's College during 1930s.Fact|date=August 2007

During the Battle of Hong Kong in World War II, Quah was a Lance Corporal in Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. He was hurt in the defense of Stonecutter's Island and thus escaped from the next lethal attacked by Japanese Force in Wong Nai Chung Gap on December 1941.Fact|date=August 2007

After the surrender of Japan in 1945, he and Halward actively re-established Scouting in Hong Kong.Fact|date=August 2007


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