Everything tagged: Wales

Walter John Bush was a young coalminer from Rugeley in Staffordshire before joining the RGA in May 1903 and sailing at the end of that year to HKG. He spent five years there, initially with 80 Coy RGA and then 88 Coy RGA - I think mostly at Lyemun Barracks.

When Lucy Baird was born in 1888 in Golftyn Lane, Connah’s Quay, on the River Dee, Flintshire, her father, James, was 45, and a foreman in the shipbuilding works. Her mother, Jane, was 42. Lucy had nine siblings, of which she was the youngest.  Some of them died in infancy.  It was in Connah’s Quay that she grew up as the census returns of 1891 and 1901 attest.

Hi, I am looking for information on Robert Owen Hughes who served in the hong kong water police for a number of years 1930s onward his wife was Pauline and they had a child Dolores Ann born 1930. Robert came back to the uk after ww2 and a few years after in the 1950s traveled back to hong kong where he lived the rest of his life.

Davies took part in the escape from Sham Shui Po POW camp with L T Ride. Here's an extract from my brother Edwin's book:

Son of Alexander Wilson (Irishman born in 1860) a master shoe-maker and Elzabeth Wilson (nee Cook).  Became a civil engineer and worked in the Public Works Department in Hong Kong for some thirty years. 

Married at St John's Cathedral on 1913-11-19 to Hilda Wilson and had at last two sons, namely Farquhar and Ronald.