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Funeral after Gresson Street incident

Funeral after Gresson Street incident
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Photo courtesy of Henry Ching:

"taken by my father who was a keen amateur photographer"

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Tuesday, January 1, 1918
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The latest two episodes of RTHK's Heritage program have Annemarie Evans interviewing Patricia O'Sullivan about her research into the Gresson Street Incident, Hong Kong policemen from Ireland, and the lives of working-class Europeans in Hong Kong in the late 1800s and early 1900s:

1918 Gresson Street Incident - Police Funeral
1918 Gresson Street Incident - Police Funeral, by Moddsey