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Hello. My gggrandfather died in Hong Kong in 1858 where he served as a member of the Medical Staff Corps. I have some details (including his death and burial date) but he was accidentally killed and I believe there was a coroners report. I have searched the HK Public Record Office but am unable to find coroners reports. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks, tomcrean
When you're looking at a photo on Gwulo, there are often times you'd like to take a closer look at some detail. This video shows how to use the Zoom feature:
Seeing the recent photograph of the gunners in Hong Kong 1911 prompts me to post a similar picture taken in 1917 of the Army Ordnance Department. I have no idea where the photo was taken nor any further details.
The chap in shorts is my great grandfather who, on retiring from the army, returned to Hong Kong and served as secretary of the Hong Kong Club from 1923 for about 10 years.
Could anyone provide information on Charles Barber, who apparently moved to Hong Kong sometime after 1945 and died in Koowloon in January 1973? Barber, representing the Motion Picture Association, was a key player in the attempt to merge and nationalize Hong Kong's electricity companies in the late 1950s. According to a family history, he worked for Hong Kong Electric and later was the editor and/ or publisher of a Kowloon newspaper called the Far East American. - any information on this newspaper also would be appreciated.
If one exists, I should like to access a girl-guiding photo of my aunt, Evelyn Warren, https://gwulo.com/node/11558 if the Hong Kong Girl Guides have an archive of group photos. David posted a reference to her departure and Mrs Reed's from Hong Kong and their work with the Girl Guides in "The Report on Girl Guides 1922". Evelyn was the only daughter of my grandfather C.E. Warren and returned to Hong Kong to live with him for three years after leaving school in 1919.
There are different opinions about where exactly Felice Beato (the photographer) took these photos.
I'm looking for some information on a Western woman (Russian mother; lived in TST) named Lindy who was born in HK around 1940 and went to KGV. Does anyone know if the school's student rolls are available for viewing?
The following review first appeared in the July 2017 edition of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong's newsletter.
Photographs of Old Hong Kong & The Tales They Tell
Written by Russel Harding
I’ve been wondering whether there is any way that the lists of the WW1 Hong Kong war dead could be published on Gwulo without a great deal of work. Gwulo is already doing so well with the Jury Lists and with documenting everyone who was interned in Stanley Camp. Patricia Lim’s database of the Colonial Cemetery and, for WW2, Tony Banham’s list of POWs are also invaluable in the process of tracing people. I noticed a list of names of the war dead published in the SCMP while I was searching the period 1918 to 1920.
Copy of original available online at HKGRO. (You may need to click the link twice to see the document.)
Excerpts:
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18. Maintenance of the Clock Tower.—The clock and tower have been maintained in good order.
Land Survey Branch.