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Leo Anatholy BORISOFF / STERLING [1916-1985]

Submitted by David on Mon, 2017-06-12 17:14
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Borisoff / Sterling
Given: 
Leo Anatholy
Birth
Date: 
1916-02-26
Birthplace (town, state): 
Nikolskii
Death
Date: 
c.1985-04-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Michael Martin writes:

Leo Borisoff was a White Russian Policeman in HK and in Stanley Camp and he was friends with my grandfather and his cousin Vitaly 'Vic' Veriga.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia
Tags: 
police
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Evgeniya YATSKIN (née NOZADZE, aka Jenny / Janet Node) [1922-2005]

Submitted by David on Mon, 2017-05-29 14:54
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Yatskin
Given: 
Evgeniya
Maiden: 
Nozadze
Alias / nickname: 
Jenny / Janet Node
Birth
Date: 
c.1922-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Vladivostok
Death
Date: 
c.2005-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

The information comes from Nona's website, which has lots more information about her aunt Jenny.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia

Boris Georgievich / Boris George MILENKO (aka Bob) [1917-1984]

Submitted by MichaelM on Sun, 2017-04-09 19:19
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Milenko
Given: 
Boris Georgievich / Boris George
Alias / nickname: 
Bob
Birth
Date: 
1917-11-01
Birthplace (town, state): 
Votkinsk
Death
Date: 
1984-09-27

Boris Milenko was born in central Russia during the Russian Revolution - the civil war which followed resulted in the Milenko family, along with many other White Russians who opposed the Red Russian communists, relocating to Harbin, Manchuria in 1920. Boris' father (Yuri Lukich Milenko) was a lawyer in St Petersburg prior to the Revolution, and continued to practice as a solicitor in Harbin from 1920 until the late 1940s.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia
Tags: 
CNCo
HKU
HKVDC

Constantine Alexander KRILOFF / KENNEDY (aka Costia / Alex) [1905-1954]

Submitted by David on Tue, 2016-08-30 18:29
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kriloff / Kennedy
Given: 
Constantine Alexander
Alias / nickname: 
Costia / Alex
Birth
Date: 
1905-01-06
Death
Date: 
c.1954-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Nikki Veriga asks:

does anyone have any information/knowledge about Alexander (Alex) Kriloff who, I believe, was involved with BAAG?  He was also known as Alex Kennedy. He was my uncle - brother-in- law of Vitaly (Vic) Veriga.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia
Tags: 
police

Georges Joseph HOFER (aka Georges Joseph Charles Hofer d'Hauv) [1886-1956]

Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2016-05-04 18:37
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Hofer
Given: 
Georges Joseph
Alias / nickname: 
Georges Joseph Charles Hofer d'Hauv
Birth
Date: 
1886-12-16
Birthplace (town, state): 
Kiev
Death
Date: 
1956-06-25

Georges Joseph Hofer was living in Shanghai with Swiss nationality at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in the summer of 1937. Later that year he was evacuated with his wife and a number of fellow nationals to Hong Kong, where he claims to have worked as a masseur. 'Claims' is the operative word: Hofer was an elaborate and skilled fantasist (who might have been born eight years later than the 'official' date given).

Birthplace (country): 
Russia

Anna Akimovna NOZADZE [1895-1979]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2015-08-08 17:56
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Nozadze
Given: 
Anna Akimovna
Birth
Date: 
1895-12-13
Death
Date: 
1979-08-18

Nona Pio-Ulski writes:

Anna Akimovna Nozadze was my grandmother, a White Russian who fled Russia with her husband and daughters during the Revolution and ended up in Shanghai.

After Hong Kong was liberated, my parents organised for her to come to Hong Kong togther with her daughter Evgeniya.

When I first started speaking I couldn't say Baba Anya, which is Russian for 'Grandmother Anya', and called her Balia, and this name stuck with her for the rest of her life.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia

George Feodorovich ROBINSON (aka G F Shevkopliass) [1908-????]

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-03-18 21:04
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Robinson
Given: 
George Feodorovich
Alias / nickname: 
G F Shevkopliass
Birth
Date: 
1908-04-20

Note from Dave Deptford:

G F Robinson, Sgt E 24  B 20,04 1908, enlisted 27.5.1930, employed with Anti-Piracy Contingent and regraded to Sub Inspector post war, awarded Colonial Police Long Service & Good Conduct Medal 1948, retired shortly thereafter. Regret I don't have his Russian name.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia
Tags: 
police
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
E contingent

Vladimir PETRO-PAVLOVSKY [1897-1971]

Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2014-03-14 18:35
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Petro-Pavlovsky
Given: 
Vladimir
Birth
Date: 
1897-06-29
Death
Date: 
1971-04-04

Mr Petro was a White Russian who had taken French Nationality. His wife, Barbara, was a friend of American writer Emily Hahn.

He was a supporter of the Free French. He joined the Volunteers on the penultimate day of the December 1941 hostilities, and was wounded in the leg. Later he escaped Hong  Kong via Macau.

Source:

Emily Hahn, China to Me, 1987 ed., 257, 293, 368

Birthplace (country): 
Russia

Serge PEACOCK (aka Sergei Piankoff) [????-????]

Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2013-12-13 17:54
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Peacock
Given: 
Serge
Alias / nickname: 
Sergei Piankoff

Serge Peacock was a baker at Lane, Crawford's Stubbs Road Bakery in the period leading up to WW11. His father also worked there.

At some point before the war he took British nationality by naturalization and anglicised his name.

He baked bread during the hostilities, and after the surrender he was held in the Exchange Building and the French Hospital with the other bakers. He was sent to Stanley Camp on May 7, 1943, where he spent the rest of the war.

He is probably to be seen in the Edgar weddding photo of June 29, 1942:

Birthplace (country): 
Russia

Lila Melitza PIO-ULSKI (née NOZADZE, aka Lila Parks) [1917-1997]

Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2013-06-10 18:13
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Pio-Ulski
Given: 
Lila Melitza
Maiden: 
Nozadze
Alias / nickname: 
Lila Parks
Birth
Date: 
1917-02-24
Death
Date: 
1997-09-07

Lila Melitza Nozadze was the daughter of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Imperial Russian Army. She was born on a train en route to Vladivostok as her mother and grandparents were fleeing Baku in 1917.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia
Tags: 
those not interned

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