Everything tagged: Australia

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.

Jimmy Yee is my uncle. His full name is James Waymond Yee. Uncle Jim is kid brother to my Dad.

Wylum is Chinese name for my Dad.  His full name is David William Yee.  Since he was named after my Grandpa, to avoid confusion, he used his middle name William.  Wylum is Chinese way of pronouncing William.
 

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mitchell's occupation in 1941 as "Prison Officer".

"A. McGregor Mitchell" appears on the List of Prison Officers for 1940, which shows he started work there on 22nd Nov, 1938. He fought in the Stanley Platoon of the HKVDC with the rank of Private.

Entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

Details from John Black's list, which gives Binks' occupation in 1941 as "Missionary".

Joy Wilson was the wife of Assistant Superintendent of Police Geoffrey Wilson.

She seems to have been in Macao at the time of the Japanese attack as during the first part of the war she worked for Consul John Reeves. After the formation of the British Army Aid Group she became an important organiser before escaping into Free China.

She predeceased her husband.

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