Everything tagged: Hong Kong

Notes from eurasian_david:

Abdul Aziz Rumjahn (a.k.a. Arthur James Rumjahn) (1904 Hong Kong-2nd March 1975 Hong Kong) was a distant cousin of mine. [...] He lived in Hong Kong his whole life. 

Dates of birth and death from the Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography.

Admitted to Diocesan Boys School in 1870: https://gwulo.com/atom/31945

He was an Assistant at the Standard Vacuum Oil Company.

“Funeral

Alberto J. Osmund

The funeral of the late Mr. Alberto J. Osmund was held in the Catholic Cemetery yesterday. The Rev. Father D. Page took the service. The deceased, who died on Thursday, was 47 years of age. He is survived by his widow, two daughters and two brothers.

"DEATH.

On the 18th inst., at Kowloon, MARY AGUSTA ORLEY, aged seven years, the beloved Daughter of George and Elizabeth Orley."

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.

-My name is Michael Souza and Henry Souza was my father.  

-He joined the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corp in 1938 and when war began, he was a member of the Field Ambulance Section of the Volunteers.  He became a POW when Hong Kong surrendered.

-He spent his time as a POW in the Shumshuipo POW camp and in April 1944, he was shipped to Japan and was incarcerated in Sendai Camp #2.  He laboured at the Iwaki Coal Mine in Yoshima until the end of the war.  

Place of birth and date of death from his page on Ancestry.ca