Everything tagged: England

Polly was my aunt.second marriage to Hughes .she had a daughter...Polly had been during the war in a Japanese camp in China..with my grandmother.

Polly married Hughes after the war..he was a policeman..I remember visiting them at the police accommodation Kowloon very near the star ferry...you had to walk up a ramp with enormous trees.

Hughes was her second marriage..the first one was to some US serviceman when she was in her teens...but that was Shanghai.

He's listed on page J129 of the 1939 Blue Book, working as a Sanitary Inspector, having first joined the Hong Kong civil service on 6th Feb, 1931.

There's a Robert Arthur Simpson listed as a Private in the HKVDC on Tony Banham's website. I assume he is the same man.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Haynes's occupation in 1941 as "Police".

He was the elder brother of Leonard Haynes.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Pepperell's occupation in 1941 as "Police".

Dates of birth & death from his page on Wikipedia.

The timeline on EdmundBlunden.org says he spent 1953-1964 in Hong Kong, as Chair of English at Hong Kong University:

• 1953 late September - Sails to Hong Kong to take up position of Chair of English at Hong Kong University.

• 1964 - Leaves Hong Kong to return to England and moves to the Suffolk village of Long Melford. 

My Great Uncle, John Edward Barrow, was an Engine Room Artificer in the Royal Navy.  In 1919 he was assigned to HMS Titania and he sailed from England to Hong Kong.  According to my family members, he spent a lot of time aboard submarines.  After HMS Titania docked in Hong Kong in April 1920, he left the Royal Navy and settled in Hong Kong.

John Black's list gives Miss Armstrong's occupation in 1941 as "Stenographer".

DoB from annpake:

Joan Armstrong 18 born 30 January 1918  Hong Kong baptised 1 May  1918 St Johns Cathedral Hong Kong