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Impressions of an upbringing in Hong Kong 1910-1933.
My grandmother was a meticulous diary keeper, though I'm not sure when all this was compiled. Apart from taking out the first ten or so pages that are devoted to early childhood in Wei Hai We, where her and her sister were born, I have not editted it. The pictures are all from her photo albums. Some of them are postcards from the time.
Thanks to Donald's son David for sharing these extracts from his father's journal. David writes:
On February 11, 1944, Lt. Donald W. Kerr of the 32nd Fighter Squadron of the 3rd Fighter Group of the United States Army 14th Air Force, Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW), was shot down over Hong Kong. These are extracts of his journal describing his rescue by the people of Hong Kong, the East River Column, and the British Army Aid Group (BAAG)
Barbara Anslow remembers her childhood in Hong Kong in the 1920s:
1927 - Sailing to Hong Kong with the P & O
Nothing in our village life in Crombie, Scotland had prepared us for the enthralling new world we were entering when we trooped up the gangway on to R.M.S. 'Rawalpindi' [1]. The Redwood family were setting off to Hong Kong where my Dad, an Electrical Engineer, was to work in the Naval Dockyard. Mum was 32, Dad 35, sister Olive 11, Mabel 4, and I was 8.
Introduction
The Hutchinsons: Sarah, Girlie, James, Bea, Tom, c1937
Jane Hersimenko has been documenting the life of her grandfather, Hugh Blackwell Layard Dowbiggin. Thanks to Jane for sharing her family history with us.
This diary has kindly been supplied by Harry's son, Henry Ching.
Henry notes that his father's written notes are a mixture of:
Thank you to Laura L Darnell (nee Ziegler) for sending us the following:
David, Maybe you can use some of this material in your digest. It is copy and pasted from my book "Send Me! Send Me!" These first two short letters are interesting as far as our nice "hotels", then it starts in Nov 1941.
Laura
Staff-Sergeant Patrick John Sheridan was a Royal Army Service Corps baker who, alongside the rest of the garrison, was taken prisoner when Hong Kong surrendered on December 25, 1941. An unlikely set of circumstances presented him with the chance to escape, a chance he seized with courage and determination. He left Hong Kong on June 4, 1942 arriving in Free China on June 7th. He was awarded the Military Medal for this exploit:
Lee Hunter, Charles Mycock's granddaughter, has very kindly sent this copy of the report Mycock gave in New Zealand. She notes "This report is dated 15th. November 1945 and was taken from my grandfather by Detective Hedwig of the New Zealand Police. I have copied it verbatim."
Charles Mycock states:-
I am at present a patient in the Hutt Public Hospital and my future address will be c/o 4 Sandrock Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Staff-Sergeant Patrick John Sheridan was a Royal Army Service Corps Master Baker who was stationed in Hong Kong from 1937 (with a break when he volunteered for a period in Shanghai). He served during the December hostilities but was not sent to Shamshuipo after the surrender; instead he was allowed to carry on baking for the hospitals. A strange set of circumstances enabled him to make a courageous escape, for which he was awarded the Military Medal.