Netherlands Trading Society 1930's

Submitted by M. Besseling on Wed, 04/09/2014 - 20:06

Please do anybody know the address of Netherlands Trading Society (Nederlandse Handel-Maatschappij N.V.). in Hong kong in 1930's (1934).

In de first week of June I will (hope) visit this address (of the former office/building), because my grandfather worked there.

In advance thank you for any reaction.

Yours faithfully,

Milly (from The Netherlands)

Goodmorning David,

First of all, thank you very much for your reaction.

My grandfather's name was Albert-Jean Besseling. He went with his wife in May 1931 to Hong Kong from Indonesia, for his work by The Netherlands Trading Society. I think he worked there till the end of 1936 or half the year of 1937.

My father (Eric Besseling) was born in the Canossa Hospital on March 1, 1934.

I will try to add some foto's.

Kind regards,

Milly

Hi Milly,

Thanks for the extra information, and the photos. From the dates, your grandfather would have been at the 11, Queen's Road Central branch, though there's a chance he would have been involved with the move to Holland House.

There is still a Canossa Hospital at the location where your father was born (see http://gwulo.com/node/4959), though the site has been re-developed so the 1930s buildings no longer remain.

Regards, David