Everything tagged: France

Robert George Broadwood was a British army general.  He was also a keen horseman, who rode in the Grand National. He served in Sudan, in the second Boer War and the First World War.

Brother Cassian served the Brothers of the Christian Schools - La Salle (De La Salle Brothers). He taught at St. Joseph's College from 1921 before being transferred to the newly opened La Salle College in 1932 as second Principal. 

I think his name/signature appears  under "La Salle College" (La Salle Relief Hospital) on the left on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

Elsa Burgess was married to Frank Low Fearon. He died in 1921. She married William Tillinghast Stanton in 1933.

She was interned with her second husband at Stanley Camp and repatriated in 1942.

Obituary/Memorial: https://www.geni.com/people/Elsa-Stanton/6000000018513955761

An American merchant and writer. Travelled to China in 1824. Employed by Thomas H. Smith and Son and later joined Russell and Company. Worked and lived in Canton and saw first hand the beginnings of the Opium War.

He penned "The Fan Kwae at Canton Before Treaty Days, 1825-1844" by an Old Resident and "Bits of Old China".

E. R. Mogra

A short biography of Genevieve BAGLIN, prepared by her nephews Jean-Jacques and Jean Louis Lecoeur.

Genevieve Pauline Baglin was born on July 18, 1904 in Colombes, a suburb of Paris in France. Her parents had returned there from Russia.

Her first two years were spent in France, before the family moved to Durham in England in 1906. They moved to Clay Cross in 1907, spent 1907 to 1911 in Chesterfield, then moved to Sheffield. While in England she and her sister Helen attended a school run by nuns.

Mr. Chessex, a Swiss national, was manager of the Gloucester Hotel.

https://www.swiss-archives.ch/detail.aspx?ID=6863781 THis source gives his middle name as Alphone which aftre some googling I've assumed is an error.

Kleber E M Caudron, was known as Maurice Caudron and was the Proprietor of K Caudron & Co.  The company was trading with exotic goods between France and Hong Kong eg: textiles, perfumes, ornaments etc.  K. Caudron & Co. was registered in HK as a private company on 18 March 1964 and dissolved on 8 December 2005. 

My mother, Helene Marie Caudron Brooks, was the 2nd of the three daughters of Maurice (Kleber) and Marcelle Caudron.  She was born in Ohain, Nord, France and as a young girl went with her family to live in Singapore for a few years before moving with them in her teens to Hong Kong in the early 1930s where her  father set up a trading company operating between France and Hong Kong. He family retained their property in northern France and she travelled there often.