Everything tagged: India

Details from John Black's list, which says he was Sir A D Blackburn, with the British Embassy in 1941.

Jean Mather, the wife of a soldier, was interned in Stanley Camp.

In 1994 she published Twisting the Tail of the Dragon, an account of her experiences in Hong Kong.

Gomes Newsletter, April 1, 1997

The above person is my grandpa. He was in Honkong during the WWII from 1934 - 1946. He lived through Japanese invasion and came back to India after 1946. He died in 1990 in India. I would like to know where he was stationed and where he lived. I am visiting Hong Kong, next month (October 2013)and would like to see those places.

Onkar

I'm looking for photos / sketches / portraits of him for the CPS project's history book.

Details of birth & death taken from descendant's message, see below.

I'm looking for photos of Malcolm Struan Tonnochy, to be used in the Central Police Station project. If you know of any, please could you let me know in the comments below?

Malcolm Manuk was born in India of Armenian parentage. He came to Hong Kong in 1899 and worked first for the Post Office and then for the Mercantile Bank. He joined the Dairy Farm Co. in 1905 as a clerk and rose to become Secretary. He was associated with the company for 27 years.

In 1923 he founded the first Theosophical Lodge in Hong Kong. In 1926 he was appointed the Theosophical Society's Presidential Agent for China. The Hong Kong Lodge was renamed in his honour soon after his death.

He was a sergeant in the HKVDC.

Sources:

Second son of Charles Edward Warren and Hannah Mabel Warren. Educated in Hong Kong, Canada and England. Articled to Arthur Edwards, Architect and Surveyor, Birmingham, 1919-1923. On the death of his father in June 1923, aged only 23, he took over as managing director of C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong with the oversight of John Fleming of Lowe, Bingham and Matthews. Lived at 19 Broadwood Road with his wife Cicely and children, Geoffrey and Diana.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Joffe's occupation in 1941 as "Housewife".

Note from her daughter, Libby: "my mother Lynn Joffe died in London on 11/4/1984 aged 72".