Lewis Wed, 10/30/2024 - 13:05 oldernewer Photo of Pillbox 62 taken after the Battle of Hong Kong. Date picture taken 1942 Shows place(s) Pillbox 062, Central (Connaught Road near GPO) [1939-????] Duke of Connaught Statue (2nd location) [1907-1942] General Post Office (Connaught Rd / Pedder St site) [1911-1977] Hotel Mansions / Union Building [1905-1961] Gloucester Building / Gloucester Hotel [1932-1977] Log in or register to post comments Comments Pillbox 62 Harrison Forman took many photos of the Central business district in 1940/41, showing scenes of the construction of air raid shelters, sandbags at government buildings etc., but none of this particular pillbox. I guess the pillbox was erected after September 1941 after he had left Hong Kong. For comparison, Forman took photographs of Pillbox 058a at the junction of Queen's Road East and Hennessy Road and of a similar in-town pillbox in Singapore :https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/search/searchterm/singapore%2C%20pillbox Log in or register to post comments
Pillbox 62 Harrison Forman took many photos of the Central business district in 1940/41, showing scenes of the construction of air raid shelters, sandbags at government buildings etc., but none of this particular pillbox. I guess the pillbox was erected after September 1941 after he had left Hong Kong. For comparison, Forman took photographs of Pillbox 058a at the junction of Queen's Road East and Hennessy Road and of a similar in-town pillbox in Singapore :https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/search/searchterm/singapore%2C%20pillbox Log in or register to post comments
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Pillbox 62
Harrison Forman took many photos of the Central business district in 1940/41, showing scenes of the construction of air raid shelters, sandbags at government buildings etc., but none of this particular pillbox.
I guess the pillbox was erected after September 1941 after he had left Hong Kong. For comparison, Forman took photographs of Pillbox 058a at the junction of Queen's Road East and Hennessy Road and of a similar in-town pillbox in Singapore :https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/search/searchterm/singapore%2C%20pillbox