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John Thomson was a photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of China and Hong Kong in the 1860s and early 1870s. There is currently an exhibition of some of John Thomson's photographs (including some taken in Hong Kong) at the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, until March 2022.
The following is an extract from an article published on the BBC website on 3 October 2021, "The pioneering Scots photographer who captured China":
Entry on the list of civilian internees:
| McBride A H | 41 | Engineer | 5 |
Not much information in the Carl Smith cards on Robert Reed that I can find. He married Anna Maria Diaz or Dias at the Roman Catholic Cathedral on 2 May 1861. [CS card 00135693GIF] He was Protestant, but I don't think he is buried in the Colonial Cemetery at Happy Valley. Their daughter Lucretia Maria Reed was baptised on 24 February 1867 at the RC Cathedral at 38 days old. Anna Maria married Charles Bond after Reed's death. Lucretia married Patrick Murray.
Mentioned in the list of POWs:
| Dinnen A H | HKVDC | Sergeant | 1718 |
James Kynoch was Senior Inspector of Works at the time of his death and had been with the PWD for 18 years. He had worked on the construction of the Panama Canal. He was one of the original promoters of the Kowloon Golf Club, a member of the Kowloon Cricket Club and a member of the Committee of the Union Church, Kowloon. He seems to have been a long standing friend and PWD contact of my grandfather, Charles Warren and a Kowloon neighbour. He is one of the twenty or so people listed in the SCMP as attending Charles Warren's funeral at St Michael's Cemetery in June 1923.
Notes from annpake:
Alexander Keith Taylor O.B.E. Chief Inspector Sanitary Department Hong Kong (1882 Aberdeenshire - 7 May 1967 Aberdeen) married Agnes Mary Watt (1880 Aberdeen - 1943 Aberdeen)
A doctor.
