Everything tagged: Hong Kong

I have no verifiable proof that this BAAG number was assigned to this person, but have only deduced the match by circumstantial evidence.

Marjorie Stintzi writes:

Marjorie Garrod was born in Hong Kong.  Her father Henry Garrod had joined the Colonial Government on 4-21-1898.  

She married A H Elston on August 9, 1924   Marjorie Elston and her younger son, Jeremy, were evacuated to Australia prior to invasion.  She worked as a government censor in Sydney.  Jeremy was at Kings School, Paramatta, as a student/boarder.  Both of their sons, Michael and Jeremy, were born in Hong Kong.

Son of Thomas Gittins snr. (1814-1893).

Worked for the tea company, John Gittins & Co., Foochow, managed by his brother John Gittins. Appears in a group photo taken at the race course in Foochow in 1899. Photo held by Museum of History. P.1976.66.

Died in Tadworth, Surrey. 

Details of birth & death from his family tree on Geni.

He is described on page 266 of "Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China (1908)":

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mitchell's occupation in 1941 as "Prison Officer".

"A. McGregor Mitchell" appears on the List of Prison Officers for 1940, which shows he started work there on 22nd Nov, 1938. He fought in the Stanley Platoon of the HKVDC with the rank of Private.

Entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees: