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The Friends of the RASHKB have kindly invited me back to present again, and welcome non-members to attend. To reserve your place(s), please send the booking form below to Mary Painter, mlpainter@btinternet.com, then either post a cheque with the form to Mary in advance or pay cash at the door.

I look forward to seeing you next month,

Regards, David

Talk details:  

Photographs of old Hong Kong and the tales they tell:

In, on, under and around Hong Kong harbour

HONG KONG STANLEY REUNION‐GATHERING REPORT – DECEMBER 2015

By Geoff Emerson

Here are my plans for this work. Ideas and feedback welcome. Also if you see a feature that you don't use because you're not sure how it works, let me know and I'll explain more about how and why I use it.

1. Current features that work well

These are the maps I use regularly, and expect to have available after the upgrade.

1.1 Map of all Places. I use this a lot. Its problem is that as the number of Places has grown, it has got very slow to load.

I remembered reading an article some 30 years ago that a Chinese attempted to build and fly a bamboo aeroplane in the pre 1950 era, at Kai Tak.  I tried to search for that article and found the Gwulo.com.  This site has many old Hong Kong photos not found in anywhere else. 

Does anyone remember or know about the attempt of flying a bamboo aeroplan at Kai Tak in the pre 1950 era?

This is an incredible long-shot, but as the years go on, it is one of the last gaps of knowledge about my Hong Kong. Which was the period 1955-1957. When the Royal Navy Hong Kong Flotilla with it's heavily armed wooden Motor Launches patrolled "South" , I remember looking high up, from the sea below, near Stanley, and seeing a red-brick built angled wall, with a large open cement like shute/drain down to the sea. In the folk-lore of the times, and as a teenager sailor, I was told that it was a wall against which the Japanese executed persons during the occupation by firing squad.

Does anyone have any records or photos of Mr. A.G. Parker, Director of Marine, Hong Kong? This man made a decision that helped my grandfather escape poverty and to start a new life half way around the world which he, his children and grandchildren will forever be grateful for. My grandfather frequently relives the fateful day at our family gatherings and it would mean a lot if I could find out more about A.G. Parker.   

I put these two documents together in Chapter 16, "The Hongkong Guerillas", in Volume III of my BAAG Series.The Holmes paper is from the BAAG papers in the Australian War Memorial and the shorter paper that follows is from my father's private papers in my possession (I usually refer to them as Ride Private Papers). Together they gave a good picture of the communist guerillas, known by the BAAG as the 'Reds'.

By:  Major D.R. Holmes, BAAG

12th July 1944.

This article from the Hong Kong Volunteer & Ex-POW Association of NSW introduces the Ablong family and their connections to the Air Raid Precaution (ARP) department in Hong Kong during WW2.

The Ablong family was resident in Hong Kong for several generations with strong ties to the Eurasian and local Portuguese communities, having arrived from Australia late in the 1890s.

I've made another small change to keep you from seeing spam. The next time you post a comment, you'll see that your comment has been queued for the administrator (that's me!) to check it. Once I've approved a comment, any comments you leave in future will be shown straight away.

If I see the comment is spam I'll just delete it and ban the user, so you don't have to see it.

Regards, David

View the original online at HKGRO: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1939/1094.pdf

Extracts below.

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