Alfred Ernest ABLONG [1886-1941]

Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 07/11/2013 - 16:29
Names
Given
Alfred Ernest
Family
Ablong
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Born
Date
Birthplace (town, state)
Waterloo
Birthplace (country)
Australia
Died
Date

Alfred Ernest Ablong (not to be confused with his son who bore the same name) came to Hong Kong in 1902 with his parents John Ablong and Emma (nee Ah Kin) and his five brothers and sisters.

In 1915 he married Mabel Agnes Elizabeth Cotton, a Hong Kong woman of English extraction.

He is described as having been 'killed during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong' so I have put a notional date of December 31 for his death, which is established as 1941. He was presumably the Air Raid Precautions worker listed in Tony Banham's Hong Kong War Diary -http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/uniformedcivilians.html

 

Sources:

Peter Hall, In The Web, 2012 edition, 184

http://www.slideshare.net/baibi/chinese-fathers-and-their-australian-families-return-to-china-1902-to-1940

Note: these documents, arising frrm an immigration dispute and available online, are a good source for Mr. Ablong and his father (John) in the period 1912-1914:

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=8760847

Note: For the uncertainty as to the fate of the Ablong brothers in the war see

http://gwulo.com/node/16367

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Additional note from Anthony:

During WWII my mother and I walked up and down North Point looking for my father's (Alfred Ernest Ablong) body to no avail.  He had been shot by a sniper while he and Sgt McDevitt were delivering food and ammunition to those at the Hotel.  It was some years later that we were informed that the vehicle in which they were travelling was torched by fifth columnists.

Anthony's recent visit to London is reported on the CWGC website:

SON MAKES 17,000 MILE PILGRIMAGE TO SEE FATHER’S NAME ADDED TO CWGC WAR MEMORIAL

The son of a Second World War civilian hero has travelled half way around the world from his home in Australia to see his father’s name added to the Commission’s Civilian Roll of Honour at Westminster Abbey in London.

Read the full article at https://www.cwgc.org/learn/news-and-events/news/2018/06/01/10/09/son-ma…

Here are photos of the Roll of Honor testament  and my wife and I with staff from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Westminster Abbey Chapel standing at the foot of the Abbey Chapel after the official ceremonial related to viewing the Roll of Honor testament on my father.

The Roll of Honor testament
The Roll of Honor testament, by Dr Anthony Ablong

 

At Westminster with CWGC and Abbey staff 1Jun18.jpg
At Westminster with CWGC and Abbey staff 1Jun18.jpg, by Dr Anthony Ablong