New on Gwulo: 2022, week 15

Submitted by David on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 17:30

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...

General

Memories of:
- M.V. Kungsholm's visit to Hong Kong on it's first round-the-world cruise in 1955
Readers are looking for any information about:
- The octagonal stones found at HKU's High West Site
- Would RAF National Service personnel based at Mount Davis in 1958 have worked at Little Sai Wan? In particular, Brian or Terry Fowler, who were brothers?
The line of the New Kowloon boundary is becoming clearer, as another of the old marker stones has been re-discovered - see the map.

Caldecott road NK/NT boundary stone, by histricalwalkhk
Several of Gwulo's regular contributors have been on a detective hunt to pin down the location of the photo below. Follow the comments to see where we believe it was taken.
54th Independent Field Squadron, Royal Engineers: a brief history, and some of their specialist vehicles that took part in the Queen's Birthday Parade, 21April 1958.
Upgrade update: I'm still working on the new site's Person page. This week's rabbit hole was a bug that stopped me adding photos to the page. In the end it turned out the photos weren't causing the problem at all, and instead the bug lies in some new date-picker software I'm using. Finding the real cause is what took the time, then thankfully the fix is quite straightforward. Onwards!

Places

Hong Kong island

Kowloon

New Territories

People

Stanley Camp internees:
- Maude Elizabeth Sarah LUCAS (née BIRD) [1887-????], manageress of the YMCA
- Repatriation notice #19 from 1945 (HMS Empire Lagan sailing to UK)
- John Charter describes the fortifications the Japanese were building in the area around Stanley Camp, in preparation for the expected Allied invasion.
Other
- Henry Qualtrough RE, bomb disposal man and rugby referee