Everything tagged: General

Work in progress: this page summarises the resources on Gwulo that cover this period.

Copy of original available online at HKGRO. (You may need to click the link twice to see the document.)

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND MAY, 1891.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 200.

Can anyone provide an answer to a question that has puzzled me over many years?  The shrapnel damage on the two bronze lions outside the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Central is only on their  relatively protected sides closest to the bank.  Why, if we can reasonably assume that the lions would always have been positioned facing away from the bank, as they are today, is there no shaprnel damage on the side facing the harbour and Tsim Sha Tsui from where shells would have been fired during December 1941?

Am I missing something?  Andrew Suddaby

Copy of original available online at HKGRO. (You may need to click the link twice to see the document.)

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HONGKONG.

SURVEYOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

Report for the Year 1891.

Copy of original available online at HKGRO. (You may need to click the link twice to see the document.)

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REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1892.

Hello readers,

Has anyone have any information about G B Harris and Violet Harris in Stanley camp? They have 8 children.

George first son is called Ron. The eldest daughter is Pearl.

Has anyone knows them? I really want to know what happened in the camp? George mum is also in the camp

het name is Ann Harris (Chung).

I have just spent a week on holiday in Montrose Scotland and the first thing that caught my attention was a famous castle fortress, Dunnottar (dunnOTTar) and a smaller castle, Abergeldie - names we know from the early days on the Peak  

In 2008, the HK goverment funded a project to research Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials conducted in the years 1946-1948. A total of 46 cases with 123 accused persons were studied. An overwiew of this project can be found here.

Of special interest might be the case WO235/1012:

In this case five Japanese officers were charged to have committed war crimes:

My great-great grandfather, Andrew Johnston, died in 1896 in California, but lived and worked in Hong Kong.  Probate was granted for him in Hong Kong and I'd love to see a copy of his Will.  I've emailed Hong Kong Probate Registry who have replied saying that an application for a deceased's Will "can be made by or with the consent of the grantee of the probate".  As that person is long gone, I wondered if this was the end of the road, or has anyone managed to obtain a copy of a 19th century Will from Hong Kong Probate Registry?  Many thanks.

By curious coincidence - given what's happening in HK at the moment - this weekend marks the 100th anniversary of another time when the people of Hong Kong gathered together in all the streets and public places, both on the island and in Kowloon.  Hostilities had ceased, of course, on 11th November the previous year, but peace and the end of the war could not be declared until a treaty had been agreed - the Treaty of Versaille - signed on 28th June 1919.