ALBERTO STEPHANO IGNATIUS GISPERT = ALBERT STEPHEN GISPERT = GISPERT = "G"

• 1903 - born in London to Catalan Spaniard parents who had imigrated to England
• 1928 - admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in UK
• 1928 - joined Evatt & Co, an accountancy firm, in Singapore, one of the Federated States of Malaya
• 1937 - son Simon was born in UK, marriage was to come later, after the mother got her divorce.
  It cost "G" £200 to pacify the husband.
• 1937 - "G" appointed branch manager in Malacca
• 1938 - "G" transferred to the Kuala Lumpur branch of Evatt & Co
• 1938 ( December) - "G" started the inaugural Kuala Lumpur paper trail which he called the "Hash House Harriers" .
• 1938 - "G" became Capt Gispert, OC of the Selangor Batallion of the Federated Malay States Volunteers
• 1941 - prior to going on leave to Australia with his family, "G" took over as manager of Evatt & Co in KL
• 1942 ( January) - at the end of his leave , he returned to Malaya as the Japanese advanced down the Malay peninsula to Singapore. Gispert was made a 2nd Lieutenant of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. He was later field-promoted to Captain.
• 1942 ( 11 February) - "G" is killed defending Singapore Island, where he was serving as a mortar officer with the Argylls. Gispert is buried in the Kranji War Cemetery and the annual Gispert Memorial run is held on the Monday closest to 11 Febuary each year.

"G" - a description: " no pretensions to athletic prowess, being short, rather rotund, and a bon viveur, great sense of fun, and humour, but underneath noble instincts ... he epitomises great fun , good fellowship, with solid qualities" - Cecil Lee