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Does anyone have any information on Kathleen Moir or of her husband, whose first name I don't know? There is a mention of her in one of my grandfather's letters. It seems they moved into the house in which he had been living, perhaps at 6 Tregunter Mansions, Hong Kong, when my grandfather's family had been evacuated to Sydney. If you can help advise on who they were that would be very excellent. Thank you
Briony
Thomas Neil Davis joined the Royal Navy and was awarded an Albert Medal for helping to sail a burning ammunition barge out of Halifax Harbour in 1917.
After WW1 in the 1920's he joined the Chinese Customs Service.
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Cecil Carr came to Hong Kong in 1936 as an assistant for Lane Crawford. He left in 1949 by which time he'd become manager of the Food Department.
More information: https://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/cecil-sammy-carr/
James Legge graduated from Aberdeen University in 1836 and joined the London Missionary Society two years after. He was sent to Malacca in 1840 where he assumed the post of principal of the Anglo-Chinese college founded by Robert Morrison. When the school moved to Hong Kong in1843, Legge remained as Principal. He was a great Sinologue and was famous for his translation and annotation of the Chinese classics. He was a prominent resident of Hong Kong as he was an all round man: Scholar, missionary, minister, chaplain and Educationist.
Link to family tree on Geni.com https://www.geni.com/people/Charles-David-Bottomley/6000000013497883144
Attorney
Legal documents from Deacons available here
John William Russell, engineer, is given in the Jurors List of 1937 as working for CE Warren & Co. Ltd. This is the only Jurors List in which he is named and I haven't found him in earlier staff lists of CE Warren & Co. Ltd., not that I've been able to check them all. His address in 1937 is 11 Bayview Mansions, Causeway Bay. His will is recorded by Carl Smith. I don't know if this is the same John Russell whose grave is listed as 12A/04/17 in Patricia Lim's data base as having died aged 77 in 1959 and who is buried with his wife Helen. Her 1937 grave bears the CEW & Co.
Patricia was the daughter of Russian-born bookseller Boris Pasco. Her father was drawn into relief work by Kiyoshi Watanabe, and she soon joined him. The Canadians in Bowen Road Hospital, where Watanabe was assigned at that time, were having a particularly tough time because they'd only been in Hong Kong for three weeks before the attack and had no friendly local contacts to help and comfort them. Ms.
Sir John Bowring was the fourth Governor of Hong Kong (1854-1859).
Husband of Veronica Bland née Walker, father of Siobhan, Diarmuid, and Clodagh
1941 Art student at the Ruskin School, Oxford
1941-46 War service with the Royal Navy; demobilised with the rank of Lieutenant
1946 Lived in Bali
1946-48 Service with the Chinese Maritime Customs
1948 Settled in Hong Kong, and joined the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company
1949 Married Veronica Walker of Hong Kong
1958 First met Zao Wou-ki
Geoffrey Wilson joined the Hong Kong Police in 1933. In 1936 he married Joy Noel Harris-Walker.
He was chosen to be part of 'Z' Force, a special operations unit which would work behind Japanese lines after an attack, but had to withdraw after it became clear this was incompatible with police duties during an invasion.
He was interned in Stanley, and in 1943 was involved with communicating with the British Army Aid Group in the organisation of an escape which never took place.