Notes from the Chardhaven Hotel thread:
Annelise:
Advert in The Straits Times, 24 October 1939, Page 2
For Sale:
Residental Hotel 44 rooms, beautifully funrished, 20 bath rooms, etc., licensed to sell intoxicating liquors, situated in the best part of Kowloon, showing handsome profits, price £3,000 selling on account of ill health. Apply to Mrs. Greenburg, proprietress, Chardhaven Hotel, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
80skid:
Good time to sell given the Japanese invasion a year away; though possibly fears of war prompted the offer in the first place. I wonder what happened to Mrs Greenburg and her handsome profits
Adam:
Mrs Greenburg is also mentioned in the April 1940 China Mail piece, mentioned above, so obviously the place wasn't snapped up too quickly.
Tony Banham has this entry in his list of civilian internees during WW2:
Greenburg, Essie [25] 51, Mrs. Room 303, at Stanley Int. Camp ISH UCWD 12.3.43
I wonder if she's the same person?
re: Essie Greenberg
Confusingly - there is a gravestone in Stanley which lists an Essie J Greenberg, who died March 12 aged 46. That's the same date but a year earlier than Tony Banham's list and also her age is different.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IwGDyZ6FcVk/TKg6hpEoFYI/AAAAAAAABJQ/K4p2qMoLR08/s1600/100_0792.JPG
Looks like either commonwealth graves commission has the details wrong or the headstone is wrong http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3169501
Photos that show this Person
Comments
Here's the front of Mrs Greenburg's gravestone, which stands in Stanley Cemetery:
I happened to look at its back, and found that the stone was originally one of the square stones used to mark lot boundaries - this one was Rural Building Lot 318:
It must have been impossible to get fresh granite into the Stanley internment camp, so I guess they re-cycled any Lot marker stones they could find around the camp grounds.
Regards, David
Great, so that confirms it was a stone from within the camp boundary they'd re-purposed.
I've posted a question to the Stanley camp discussion, asking if anyone has more information about the stone-working capabilities within the camp.
Regards, David
Essie G Greenberg
Essie G Greenberg, died at Stanley Mar. 12, 1943 - age 51. Her husband, Walter William Greenburg is on the 1939 Jurors list as a Foreman, Taikoo dockyard & Engineering Co., living "on premises"
(http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/civilians/html/g_database_40.htm)