I was born in Hong Kong in 1936. Evacuated to Australia via Philipines in 1940 and ended up in Moree NSW. Taken to England 1945 and returned to Hong Kong 1948. School at KGV Graduated from Loughborough College and St Pauls as PE teacher but called up for NS so undertook a 5 year short service commission in the RAF. Posted to RAF Cosford, RAF Colerne and RAF Cranwell. Retired as Flt Lt.
My aunt, Elena Laihovetsky, was evacuated to Australia in 1940, where she later met and married a Canadian airman Charles Schwenger. She moved to Toronto Canada after the war.
Alvena lived in HK 1919-1940 as Alvena Laihovetsky, except for a couple of years in the early 1920s when the family went to Vancouver, Canada chicken farming (unsuccessfully), and 1946-1959 as Alvena Wellstead.
She was born in Japan to Russian parents who happened to be outside Russia at the time of the Bolshevik revolution. Her father registered her birth with the outgoing Imperial Russian Consul in Nagasaki, who took the money and ran.
Alvena remained stateless until she was naturalised in 1940 in time for evacuation to Australia via Manila.
My mother, Helene Marie Caudron Brooks, was the 2nd of the three daughters of Maurice (Kleber) and Marcelle Caudron. She was born in Ohain, Nord, France and as a young girl went with her family to live in Singapore for a few years before moving with them in her teens to Hong Kong in the early 1930s where her father set up a trading company operating between France and Hong Kong. He family retained their property in northern France and she travelled there often.