Everything tagged: Hong Kong

KGV Prefect 1953-54 and daughter of KGV Headmaster Arthur Leslie Potter (1896-1962)

Marriage 7 January 1918 St Mary's Church Finchley

Bride Phyllis Edith Henderson age 22 Spinster

Groom Lanceray Arthur Newnham age 28 Bachelor Officer in the Army Son of Albert Tristram Herbert Newnham Colonel in the Army

Colonel Lanceray Arthur Newnham G.C., M.C.  born 3 August 1889 Simla Bengal India Died by execution 18 December 1943 Hong Kong

James Daniel Bush married Victoria Ho, daughter of Ho Fook. Their remains were in Hong Kong Cemetery, instead of Chiu Yuen. James had two brother, Eldred and Willaim. But Eric Ho said, James also had a sister...

James was a professor in Sun Yat-sen university, Canton(now Guangzhou). He was a loyal Christian, may that why he was buried in Happy Valley

Burial record:

Dates of her birth and death come from https://jhshk.org/community/the-jewish-cemetery/burial-list/gubbay-kati…

I am currently working on a research project about an Italian Catholic priest, Father Enea Tapella (達碑立神父) from the (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, PIME), who spent his good years in Hong Kong between 1957 and 1977, and was renowned with his unselfish contribution to mentally handicapped children in Hong Kong.  In those years not only support for this group of people, and their parents, were very limited, they were also subject to unfair discrimination by other people.  Father Tapella initiated volunteer groups in several parishes he served in Hong Kon

DoB from her Wikipedia page.

Her entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

I'm very sorry to have received news that Alison died last week. Her contributions to Gwulo include two wartime diaries that she painstakingly typed up from the originals: the account of her father, Colin McEwan, and that of R. E. Jones.

In 2010, Alison introduced us to Mr Jones's diary:

I've recently started transcribing a diary in my family's possession [...]

How my father Colin McEwan came by it we don't know, but it turned up as we slowly went through my parents' books.