What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
General
- GW has identified the buildings in this c. 1888 photo:
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Peak, by hfsiu
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- Hong Kong newspapers from December 1941
- Readers ask for help with:
- When was this house on Castle Peak Beach built, and who owned it?
- Looking for photos of the first building at 70 Kennedy Road for the original owner's grand-daughter
- Looking for any information about Bob Charles. He ran the HK Riding School in the late 1930s, was a sergeant with the HKVDC, and a POW at Shamshuipo.
- When was this house on Castle Peak Beach built, and who owned it?
- Looking for Christmas gifts? If you need a gift for family, friends, or colleagues with a Hong Kong connection, consider Gwulo's books!
Places
- Hong Kong
- Club Germania (aka German Club, 1st location) / Eastern Private Family Hotel [????-????]
- Overseer’s Quarters, Elliot Filter Beds [1925- ]
- Workmen’s Quarters, Elliot Filter Beds [1919- ]
- School of Anatomy and School of Physiology, HKU [1917-c.1978]
- School of Tropical Medicine and School of Pathology, HKU [1919-c.1978]
- Tin Hau Floating Temple, Causeway Bay [1955- ]
- Club Germania (aka German Club, 1st location) / Eastern Private Family Hotel [????-????]
- New Territories
- Deacon Chiu Park, Tuen Mun [1977- ]
- Nam Fong To [????- ], one of the eight villages that were cleared in preparation to build the Shing Mun Reservoir.
- Deacon Chiu Park, Tuen Mun [1977- ]
- Outlying islands
- Watchtower, Luk Tei Tong [c.1942- ]
- St. Joseph's Chapel, Yim Tin Tsai [????- ]
- Watchtower, Luk Tei Tong [c.1942- ]
A lot of the people listed below have been added because they are mentioned in one or more of the wartime diaries. To see the pages that mention these people, first click their name to visit their page, then click the 'What links here' tab.
People & Organisations
- Dorothy GITTINS (née AHLMANN) [1878-1961]
- Hong Kong Christian Council [1954- ]
- Royal Ulster Rifles [1881-1968], in Hong Kong from 1935 to 1937, and again from 1951 to 1953
- Missionaries:
- Wendell P KARSEN [1936- ]
- Arthur G LINDQUIST [c.1900-c.1961]
- Wendell P KARSEN [1936- ]
- WW2: Armed forces
- HKRNVR
- Frank BUCKLE [????-????], Lieutenant
- Vivian Edmund FERRIER [1903-1951], Warrant Officer
- Frank BUCKLE [????-????], Lieutenant
- HKVDC
- Robert Harper G CHARLES (aka Bob) [????-????], Sergeant
- Francis CRABB [c.1923- ], Private
- Gordon P FERGUSON [????-????], Lieutenant
- Frederick FLIPPANCE (aka Fred) [1891-1980], Major
- Bertram Carmichael HOBBS [????-1941], Private
- Henry Barron ROSE [????-????], Colonel
- Thomas Fletcher STAINTON [1902-1984], Sergeant
- David Louis STRELLETT [????-????], Captain
- Robert Harper G CHARLES (aka Bob) [????-????], Sergeant
- Royal Army Service Corps
- George Victor MERRIFIELD [????-????], Staff Sergeant
- George WHITE [1899-1993], Captain, Controller of Land Transport
- George Victor MERRIFIELD [????-????], Staff Sergeant
- Royal Artillery
- George W CROSS [????-????], Major
- Torquil MCCLEOD [????-????], Commander
- George W CROSS [????-????], Major
- HKRNVR
- WW2: Civilian nurses
- Rose PADGETT (née HOBBS) [1911-1993]
- Daisy Elizabeth Minnie STAINTON (née WILSON) [1904-1991]
- Rose PADGETT (née HOBBS) [1911-1993]
- WW2: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service nurses
- Miriam BEAMAN [c.1916-????]
- Edith Freda DAVIES [c.1898-????]
- Mary Ann Lockerbie DAVIES (née CURRIE) [1905-????]
- Edith Mary Beatrice DYSON [1900-1986]
- Amelia Fleming GORDON (aka Molly) [????-????]
- (Muriel) Joan MACLEOD (née WHITELEY) [1916-2004]
- Adelaide Georgina MORGAN [c.1912-????]
- Margaret Anna NORTH [1906-????]
- Muriel Kathleen THOMPSON [c.1908-2002]
- Daphne VAN WART [1914-????]
- Miriam BEAMAN [c.1916-????]
- WW2: ANS nurses
- Olga Mihalovna FERRIER (née PANTELIEVA) [1906-????]
- WW2: VAD nurses
- Marjorie BUCKLE (née DOBSON) [c.1905-????]
- Margaret Alison Campbell BURKITT (née BLACK, aka Alison) [1921-1973]
- Agnes Lamond FLIPPANCE (née STEWART) [1893-c.1953]
- Rosemary E HOBBS [1910-????]
- Beata Elizabeth de Courcy Morgan MILLS (née RICHARDS) [1922-1993]
- Christina Mary ROBSON [1905-????]
- Mary Marguerite RUDOLF (née MCCLAREN) [1904-????]
- Winifred Margaret SUTTON [1895-????]
- Annie Archibald THOM [c.1889-????]
- Beatrice Maud TOMLIN [1883-????]
- Violet SIMON-WHITE (née STUDDERT)[1896-????]
- Augusta WEXHAM [c.1900-????]
- Gladys Frances WHITE [1908-1992]
- Marjorie BUCKLE (née DOBSON) [c.1905-????]
- WW2: Other Stanley Camp internees:
- Clara Thelma FORBES [1893-????]
- Eileen HOBBS [1898-????]
- George Thomas PADGETT [1901-2025], electrical engineer
- Jane McCord REYNOLDS-DICKSON [1902-????]
- Clara Thelma FORBES [1893-????]
Photos
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