Everything tagged: General

I am engaged in editing the logbook of HMS Tarantula. An intriguing entry for the 6th July 1923 reads,"At Wuchow. 11.30am: Baptism Service held on board.  Dorothy Haslett Hunter christened by the Rt Reverend the Bishop of Victoria." A christening aboard a ship of the Royal Navy is highly unusual, so I wonder who was Miss Hunter and why the Bishop travelled from HK to christen her?

After WW2, the Hong Kong Government started publishing a book containing a report of the year's events. The Hong Kong public library has electronic copies available to read online - BUT some years have the complete book online, while others only have a few pages online). 

Thanks to Gordon for sending this clipping. The article is also available online at http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=195987 

One of the headaches of using a website is spending time writing a long piece of text, then accidentally clicking a link or the "back" button, and losing all that work.

I've added a new feature that tries to prevent this. If you start editing a page or a comment, and then click a link or button before saving, an alert message will pop up, and give you the chance to stay on the page so that you don't lose your work.

Good morning.  Apart from the obvious - that it is a car badge from POW association - does anyone have additional info - age/who had them etc.  Many thanks,

Here is a list of children in Stanley Camp aged up to 16yrs, as at 09/02/1944.  This is a list that I typed up maybe 20 years ago and is taken from something that looks fairly official that I was given at a reunion in HKG that I attended in the early days.

Following on from David’s Club Lusitano’s historic propeller story here are two flags that could also be categorised as ‘items of interest displayed on walls’. These framed flags currently hang in the Marine Police Headquarters in Sai Ying Pun.

The first is the Japanese flag that flew over the old Marine Police Headquarters building in Tsim Sha Tsui during the World War II. During the occupation the Japanese navy used the old MPHQ building as a local headquarters.