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Rupert Lonsdale, later Canon Lonsdale, was one of the officers who served on HM Submarine L3 in the 4th Submarine Flotilla on the China Station in 1928-29, having first served on the X1 in 1927. In May 1939 he came back to the China Sea in command of Seal a Grampus class submarine, but returned to the North Sea patrol. Seal was given the task of laying a minefield in Kattegat, but was bombed by a Heinkel. Diving to evade e-boats Seal hit a newly laid minefield and was damaged.

Notes from 1314:

Thomas senior - Born Cork  18.2.1874  enlisted as PC 6 on 31.10.1898   Sgt by 1908  To pension as Inspector 1926, died 1951

And from annpake:

Carl Smith Card 88233

T Cashman retired from police in 1926 after 28 years service. Recruited IRC Department Dublin. Left with wife and 4 children 9 (all born in Hong Kong) to settle in Cork.

Superintendent HKP 1950- 1960s

Any info would be of interest

Her family connections are mentioned Wikipedia's page for William Ayrton, her husband's grandfather.

He was the Irish curate of Midsomer Norton in Somerset Coalfield, who went to Shanghai with the Reverend George Smith (later Bishop of Victoria in Hong Kong 1849) in 1844 as one of the founders of Church Missionary Society work in China. He became a canon of St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong and later at the Holy Trinity Cathedral at Shanghai. He came with his family and served nearly forty years in China before retiring in 1882. Several of his children stayed on in China.

The earliest mentions of F C Clemo are in the Jurors Lists.

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1925-29:

Married Arthur George Pile (Canonbury, London) 1903-08-22 and emigrated to Hong Kong. Left him and emigrated to Canada 1924 with their youngest son