12 Feb 1946 SCMP Mr H Talbot left Hong Kong on repatriation 22 September. To be married 2o February to Miss Eliza Olivia Vivain ( sic) Schwartz. Brother of Bernard Talbot of Malcolm & Co
Passenger List London to Hong Kong May departing May 1946
With the 80th anniversary events at the Guiyang Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corp (CRC MRC) museum being planned, I am seeking additional evidence of Dr. Harry Talbot's involvement with the CRC MRC prior to his internment in Stanley Camp. Our goal is to include him on the monument of the international physicians who served with the MRC. We have the following evidence: In October 1938, Dr. Lim also wrote to Dr. Talbot that he would welcome his help in trying to secure an American liaison officer to refute the charges of corruption that had been leveled against the CRC. (1)
In 1939, Dr. Talbot returned to China. On March 11, he left Hong Kong with Dr. Paul Dohan to deliver supplies to Dr. Lim’s CRC headquarters in Guiyang, China. The CDL wrote that he subsequently traveled to the northwest to bring supplies to the 8th Route Army. (2)
Dr. Lim reported to the CRC HQ on April 28, 1939, that Dr. Talbot was assigned to a MRC unit on the Hunan front. (3).
Any added information would help to strengthen this application. Your help is most appreciated!
Robert Mamlok, MD
Friends of the International members of the Medical Releif Corps
Communication from Dr. Robert Lim to Dr. Harry Talbot, Changsha September 2, 1938, American Bureau forMedical Aid to China records, [ Box 26, National Red Cross Society of China, Dr. Robert Limfolder], Rare Bookand Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.
2. “New 4th Army Medical Services”, April 1, 1939, China Defence League Newsletters (from the Hong KongCentral Committee of the China Defence League), DS777.533. R45C393 [Jul 1938–Nov. 1941], Hoover Institution Library.
3. Communication from Dr. Lim to Dr. Wang, American Bureau for Medical Aid to China records, [ Box 26,National Red Cross Society of China, Dr. Robert Lim folder], Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Columbia University in the City of New York.
This is what I have in my notes about Dr. Talbot's service in China:
1.
In 1938 the China Defence League published Harry Talbot's account of three months active service with Red Cross units on the Nanchang front.
Source: CDL 1939-1940 Report, p. 98.
I've not found a copy of this report in any archive I've visited.
2. On July 23, 1938, Hilda Selwyn-Clarke was with Agnes Smedley during a Japanese raid on Changsha. The two women were in the Red Cross Headquarters when a bomb dropped a block away, causing heavy casualties. Two bombs fell on the 95 th Base Hospital for the severely wounded where Dr. Harry Talbot was operating, spending part of his leave. Luckily they did not explode.
Source: South China Morning Post, 'Changsha Raided/H. K. Woman Present', July 25, 1938, p.14.
3.
On September 6 1938 Talbot spoke to the Rotary Club about the two months he recently spent with the Chinese Red Cross.
Source: 'Glowing Tribute Paid to Chinese Soldiers by Speaker at Rotary Club Tiffin', China Mail, September 7, 1939, p. 7.
4.
In 1939 Talbot visited Canada and one result that an organization sent ambulance trucks to China.
Source: 'AMBULANCE TRUCKS: Canada Overseas Chinese To Aid Homeland', South China Morning Post, 22 Mar 1939, p. 18.
It sounds like this was a propaganda/fund-raising trip on behalf of the CDL, but at the moment I don't have access to the SCMP archive to get more details.
Good luck with your efforts to get Dr Talbot's services recognised.
Comments
Harry Talbot
Brian Edgar writes:
I came across a complete post-war article by Talbot on eye problems in Stanley Internment Camp:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC510663/
Harry Talbot 1903 - 16 November 1982
Carl Smith Card
12 Feb 1946 SCMP Mr H Talbot left Hong Kong on repatriation 22 September. To be married 2o February to Miss Eliza Olivia Vivain ( sic) Schwartz. Brother of Bernard Talbot of Malcolm & Co
Passenger List London to Hong Kong May departing May 1946
Elsa (sic) Olivia Vivain Talbot 24 25 Cunningham Court London W.9.
Passenger List Southampton to Hong Kong departing 25 July 1952
Harry Talbot 48 Doctor
Eliza Olivia Vivain (sic) Talbot 31
Daughter Talbot 5
Daughter Talbot 4
Catherine Talbot 72
Naturalisation Records
Born as Harris Teitelbaum
Geni
Birth 2 November 1903 Merthyr Tydfil, Wales [no record in UK index]
Death 16 November 1982 Lake Worth USA
Burial 18 November 1982 Mount Kisko, Valhalla, New York, United States aged 89
Parents:
Isaac Teitelbaum/ Talbot, Catherine (Raine) Teitelbaum/ Talbot
Siblings:
Israel Ber Teitelbaum/ Talbot born c 1893, Moses Teitelbaum/ Talbot born c 1898
Family Naturalised 24th November 1911 in Merthyr Tydfil.
Betram Talbot
Was he Israel Ber Teitelbaum the brother of Harris Teitelbaum aka Harry Talbot
Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps
With the 80th anniversary events at the Guiyang Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corp (CRC MRC) museum being planned, I am seeking additional evidence of Dr. Harry Talbot's involvement with the CRC MRC prior to his internment in Stanley Camp. Our goal is to include him on the monument of the international physicians who served with the MRC. We have the following evidence:
In October 1938, Dr. Lim also wrote to Dr. Talbot that he would welcome his help in trying to secure an American liaison officer to refute the charges of corruption that had been leveled against the CRC. (1)
In 1939, Dr. Talbot returned to China. On March 11, he left Hong Kong with Dr. Paul Dohan to deliver supplies to Dr. Lim’s CRC headquarters in Guiyang, China. The CDL wrote that he subsequently traveled to the northwest to bring supplies to the 8th Route Army. (2)
Dr. Lim reported to the CRC HQ on April 28, 1939, that Dr. Talbot was assigned to a MRC unit on the Hunan front. (3).
Any added information would help to strengthen this application. Your help is most appreciated!
Robert Mamlok, MD
Friends of the International members of the Medical Releif Corps
2. “New 4th Army Medical Services”, April 1, 1939, China Defence League Newsletters (from the Hong KongCentral Committee of the China Defence League), DS777.533. R45C393 [Jul 1938–Nov. 1941], Hoover Institution Library.
3. Communication from Dr. Lim to Dr. Wang, American Bureau for Medical Aid to China records, [ Box 26,National Red Cross Society of China, Dr. Robert Lim folder], Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Columbia University in the City of New York.
Dear Dr. Mamlok, This is…
Dear Dr. Mamlok,
This is what I have in my notes about Dr. Talbot's service in China:
1.
In 1938 the China Defence League published Harry Talbot's account of three months active service with Red Cross units on the Nanchang front.
Source: CDL 1939-1940 Report, p. 98.
I've not found a copy of this report in any archive I've visited.
2. On July 23, 1938, Hilda Selwyn-Clarke was with Agnes Smedley during a Japanese raid on Changsha. The two women were in the Red Cross Headquarters when a bomb dropped a block away, causing heavy casualties. Two bombs fell on the 95 th Base Hospital for the severely wounded where Dr. Harry Talbot was operating, spending part of his leave. Luckily they did not explode.
Source: South China Morning Post, 'Changsha Raided/H. K. Woman Present', July 25, 1938, p. 14.
3.
On September 6 1938 Talbot spoke to the Rotary Club about the two months he recently spent with the Chinese Red Cross.
Source: 'Glowing Tribute Paid to Chinese Soldiers by Speaker at Rotary Club Tiffin', China Mail, September 7, 1939, p. 7.
4.
In 1939 Talbot visited Canada and one result that an organization sent ambulance trucks to China.
Source: 'AMBULANCE TRUCKS: Canada Overseas Chinese To Aid Homeland',
South China Morning Post, 22 Mar 1939, p. 18.
It sounds like this was a propaganda/fund-raising trip on behalf of the CDL, but at the moment I don't have access to the SCMP archive to get more details.
Good luck with your efforts to get Dr Talbot's services recognised.