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Barbara Anslow: In 1941, Mr Puckle was Director of ARP (Air Raid Prevention).

Barbara Redwood: In 1941 he was Deputy Director of ARP (Air Raid Precautions).

Barbara Anslow: "[In 1941] Mr C.T. Bailey was a father figure in ARP Dept."

This name popped up when I bought an old 1927 Christmas card, sent by L R .. then a surname I didn't recognise, c/o Butterfield & Swire.

Adam replied that "He was Mr Lewis Rhodes Billinghurst, according to the 1927 Jurors List."

I have only just got information about my great uncle Jack Mcgowan and his wife (I have no information on her, she may have been Chinese or a prior English wife) were in the siege of the Repulse Bay hotel and after lived in the sewer drain for the duration of the Japanese occupation. I was about 8 or 9 when he returned to the UK and I can only remember meeting this living skeleton off the train in London, but no wife.



A Mr Mcpherson who was the superintendant of the then new Auckland harbour bridge knew him and survived with him in the drain.

Looking for information on my father, we lived on the peak late 1950s his name David Frederick Trevelyan Kingdon,he worked as an import clerk I believe,nothing required only information Regards Mike Kingdon

Sir William Robinson - Governor of HK 1891-1898

At a time when Sir Paul Chater was at the pinnacle of his career and was as fully focused on the development of, and the continuation of the growth process that Hong Kong was undergoing, due, in no small part to both of these men.  Sir William, perhaps not as popular as previous Governors of the Colony, nor indeed as Sir Paul himself, but nonetheless his time and presence in Hong Kong was clearly appreciated by the Chinese community.