Submitted by Admin on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 15:24 Names Given Alan Gordon James Family Weir Sex Male Status Unknown Born Date 18 May 1944 Birthplace (town, state) Stanley Internment Camp Birthplace (country) Hong Kong Tags WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp Connections: This person is ... Child of Margaret Winifred Grace WEIR (née WAUGH) [1909-2005] Arthur Gordon WEIR [1912-1994] Log in or register to post comments Photos that show this Person Comments Alan Gordon James Weir 1944 Baptised 2 July 1944 St Johns Catherdral (Carl Smith Card) Log in or register to post comments re: Alan Gordon James Weir 1944 The family were stuck in Stanley Camp in 1944, so that's likely where Alan was baptised. Or perhaps he was baptised later after the end of the war, as the decade on the card isn't very clear: https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarl.xhtml?q=&names=&cno=151431. My guess is that he was baptised on 2 July 1944 in Stanley Camp, and it was mentoned in a list of baptisms published by the Cathedral post-war. Log in or register to post comments Alan Gordon James Weir 1944 Baptism date I got the information from an Ancestry tree and have been in contact with his brother Andrew born 1947. Log in or register to post comments Their Finest Hour website relates to this man https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/The_Weir_Family_s_… I find it a difficult site to search, but some images of documents including his baby book presumably from the camp. Log in or register to post comments
Alan Gordon James Weir 1944 Baptised 2 July 1944 St Johns Catherdral (Carl Smith Card) Log in or register to post comments
re: Alan Gordon James Weir 1944 The family were stuck in Stanley Camp in 1944, so that's likely where Alan was baptised. Or perhaps he was baptised later after the end of the war, as the decade on the card isn't very clear: https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarl.xhtml?q=&names=&cno=151431. My guess is that he was baptised on 2 July 1944 in Stanley Camp, and it was mentoned in a list of baptisms published by the Cathedral post-war. Log in or register to post comments
Alan Gordon James Weir 1944 Baptism date I got the information from an Ancestry tree and have been in contact with his brother Andrew born 1947. Log in or register to post comments
Their Finest Hour website relates to this man https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/The_Weir_Family_s_… I find it a difficult site to search, but some images of documents including his baby book presumably from the camp. Log in or register to post comments
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Alan Gordon James Weir 1944
Baptised 2 July 1944 St Johns Catherdral (Carl Smith Card)
re: Alan Gordon James Weir 1944
The family were stuck in Stanley Camp in 1944, so that's likely where Alan was baptised. Or perhaps he was baptised later after the end of the war, as the decade on the card isn't very clear: https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarl.xhtml?q=&names=&cno=151431.
My guess is that he was baptised on 2 July 1944 in Stanley Camp, and it was mentoned in a list of baptisms published by the Cathedral post-war.
Alan Gordon James Weir 1944
Baptism date
I got the information from an Ancestry tree and have been in contact with his brother Andrew born 1947.
Their Finest Hour website relates to this man
https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/The_Weir_Family_s_…
I find it a difficult site to search, but some images of documents including his baby book presumably from the camp.