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Kenneth Roderick MACASKILL [1880-1963]

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Kenneth R Macaskill was the step father of Victor and Alan MacKenzie who served with the Hong Kong Police and were in Stanley POW Camp during WW2.

Kenneth R Macaskill and his wife retired to Auckland, New Zealand after the War.

During the War his wife Hannah, mother of Victor and Alan lived in Feilding with my great Aunt and Uncle, Billy and Meta Freebairn.

Kenneth is buried in Auckland where he died on the 15th of March 1963.

Frances Gordon OGILVIE [1895-1993]

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Frances Gordon Ogilvie was a Presbyterian missionary teacher. She went to China in 1920 and served in the mission schools in Canton. With rising tensions in southern China, Frances Ogilvie relocated to Hong Kong in 1940 and re-established the Shung Kei Bible Training Institute in Shatin.

Margaret Ann NORTH [????-????]

Submitted by Alan Ho on

Two other New Zealand nurses were among the three thousand prisoners at Stanley Camp, Hong Kong.

 

Margaret North , a missionary nurse who had worked at Hangchow , was given permission to join the Military Nursing Service . At first she was destined for Singapore , but eventually arrived at Hong Kong in November 1941 . On Christmas Day Hong Kong capitulated,  and for her splendid work during the preceding bombardment , Miss North became the only missionary nurse to receive the R.R.C. *

John Ronald PROBERT [1921-1994]

Submitted by Alan Ho on
  • In 1965, Commander REME John Probert arranged a visit for former Hong Kong prisoners of war on the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Sham Shui Po POW Camp.

Frederick Cyril GABY (aka Cyril) [1906-2002]

Submitted by jill on

Cyril Gaby represents a long-standing tranche of the Hong Kong community - that is of seamen who would acquire a Chinese mistress in the city and set her up in an apartment. It was a convenient arrangement for men who came and went. In his autobiography, Gaby has described how he acquired his mistress through the time honoured "viewing" procedure at a tea shop in Ladder Street and recorded the price negotiated with the madam, which in his case in the early 1930s was a down payment of $500 and the purchase of a $2000 apartment in Wanchai.

Thomas Naughton MACREYNOLDS [1883-1954]

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Mr McReynolds either lived next door to 19 Broadwood Terrace in 1926 or next door to 19 Broadwood Road. He also owned a monkey. He is not on Carl Smith nor on the Jurors Lists. It would be useful to verify his actual address in order to confirm the whereabouts of my grandmother, Hannah Warren in 1926, apparently bitten by McReynolds's monkey in one newspaper report. A second newspaper report gave the victim as her daughter-in-law, Cicely Warren and the location Broadwood Road, not Broadwood Terrace.