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Student and Prefect at KGV 1953-1954

Appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Civil Aerodrome on 1 May 1934.

Left Hong Kong on leave in 1938.

John Howell May died at 33 Caine Road in 1919 aged 83. The Rate Books also give him as the owner of the house during the first decade of the century when my great-grandfather, John Olson and his family were living there. He retired and returned to Hong Kong in 1911, the year that John Olson and his wife moved to 98a Wanchai Road, purchased by C.E. Warren & Co. the same date. John May joined the Chinese Imperial Customs in 1860 and subsequently became Harbour Master of Shanghai. May also bought nos.

Engagement announced of Marjorie Cook, schoolteacher of 42 Kennedy Road to Cyril Henry Newell Savage, Inspector of shipwrights of HM Naval Dockyard. SCMP, June 26, 1949.

Civil Engineer in Admiralty Works, Hong Kong and later self-employed civil engineeer and architect and Special Juror. A keen and prominent Freemason in Hong Kong, holding the position of Worshipful Master of the Zetland Lodge from 1898, and was later P.M.Z. Victoria Chapter from 1901 and then District Senior Grand Warden from 1912. Two of his four sons pre-deceased him in Hong Kong 

Solicitor and long term resident of Hong Kong

“The Late Mr H.J. Holmes.

"THE remains of Private Philipps, of E. Co., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who died in hospital yesterday, were interred at Happy Valley this morning with full military honours."

Police Constable (No. 23) in the Hong Kong Police Force who had served his full fifteen years tenure having joined on 12th August 1884 but tragically died just before he was about to retire on his pension and travel back home to the British Isles with his wife. He had previously served in the Irish Constabulary, the 93rd Highland Regiment and the Dundee Police Force before being posted to Hong Kong.