Everything tagged: Hong Kong

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Miss Bascombe's occupation in 1941 as Teacher.

Details copied from family tree at: http://www.lidderdale.com/gen028.html

“My activities commenced in Argyle Street Camp towards the end of Summer of 1942 when I began to speak to one of the Chinese drivers of the ration lorries, which used to make daily visits into the Camp.  I got some items of local news from him and then started the system of bringing in Chinese newspapers through him.  This went on for many months.

John Black's list gives Miss Armstrong's occupation in 1941 as "Stenographer".

DoB from annpake:

Joan Armstrong 18 born 30 January 1918  Hong Kong baptised 1 May  1918 St Johns Cathedral Hong Kong

We found your website when researching 'Soldier of Fortune' information on Hong Kong location filming. My husband's mother Margaret Wheeldon Pugh was Susan Hayward's stand in. She always talked about rickshaw scenes if you could get her to talk about the film time (she considered it a lark). Unfortunately she passed away at 90 years old on Feb 3, 2017.

She was born and raised in Hong Kong and was one of first 6 stewardesses for Cathay Pacific.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Potter's occupation in 1941 as "Barrister".

I am researching what happened to my grandfather during WWII, before he came to the UK and married my grandmother Stella Abbott (in July 1950).

Isabel Agnes Allen was my father's mother. She also owned a women's fashion shop in Central in the early 1930s called Elite Styles. I think it may have been in Icehouse Street. She used to travel from Hong Kong to Paris and back again each year to bring back dresses etc for her clients. 

My father was William Lewis Rapley, born on 26 Oct 1918 in Hong Kong. His father was Lewis Stephens Rapley (1885-1936) who was a manager at J. T. Shaw at the time. The address Isabel Agnes Rapley gave on my father's birth certificate was "Sea View", Wanchai Gap Road.