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Are there staff lists in W.T. Featherstone's DBS Register?

Submitted by jill on Fri, 05/14/2021 - 05:59

Apologies for duplicating this enquiry which I added to an existing DBS thread a week ago and have just corrected. It eluded David’s weekly summary last week and perhaps got buried, but now appears below this post. In the HK Daily Press article uploaded to Gwulo which describes the expedition of DBS boys through the Golden Hill Tunnel in 1926, https://gwulo.com/comment/58391#comment-58391 I was startled to see the name of my father, C.R. Warren given as one of the three masters who led the group.

John PRETTEJOHN [1915-1988]

Submitted by micar on Wed, 12/16/2020 - 01:51

John Prettejohn Pte 2681 Wounded 19 Dec 1941 at Wong Nei Chong Gap.  Interned as POW at Shampshuipo, transported on Toyama Maru 1943 to Nagoya #2 Branch Camp (Narumi) working in locomotive factory.  Repatriated to HK after war.   DBS Senior Prefect 1934-35.  Reporter for SCMP to 1973.

John George SWANSTON [1879-c.1935]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 11/16/2020 - 02:59

In my efforts to unravel the social circle of my grandfather Charles Warren from the names of the people who attended his funeral or sent wreaths, I've had difficulty identifying this person because of differences in the spelling of his surname and also the date of his death. Carl Smith describes him as a marine engineer, which seems right as we can find him in the Jurors Lists of 1909-11 as Foreman at the Taikoo Dockyard. There is a John George Swanston listed at the DBS in 1887 which would probably mean that he was born in Hong Kong.

Cyril Charles WARNES [c.1910-????]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 03/25/2019 - 15:38

Cyril Warnes was the third and youngest child of Charles and Elizabeth Warnes. He was a great-grandson of John Olson snr. His mother died of cancer in 1917 and his father died on 7 August 1920 at the General Hospital, Singapore (info via moddsey). Cyril is listed as attending DBS in 1918 and he is shown as a smiling boy together with all the other grandsons of John Olson snr. in group family photos before John Olson's death.