Everything tagged: Australia

DoB from John Black's list. No occupation is given.

Eric MacNider's diary notes she was the "widow of late Capt.R.F. Mitchell".

Married Percy Glendinning on 14 October 1919 at St John's Cathedral Hong Kong.

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.

I am looking for information about my grandmother, Hannah Warren, who returned to Hong Kong from England in June 1923 on the death of her husband, my grandfather, Charles Edward Warren, but whose funeral she did not arrive in time to attend. Her own death certificate states that she had spent "about" 25 years in Australia. We assume that she was evacuated from Hong Kong between 1939 and 1941, but there is no definite record of that. I haven't been able to find any record of where she was living after her return in 1923 until 1941.

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".