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Hong Kong 1915-16 Royal Engineers resize.jpg

Hong Kong 1915-16 Royal Engineers resize.jpg
Submitted by jessamcgrath
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Royal Engineers
HK Challenge Shield
United Services League
Hong Kong
1920s
1915

This is the final photo in the group and I believe it has the most information in it. Again, the scanner couldn't fit the cardbpard frame so the title has been cut out of the digital photo. It says; at the top: HongKong 1915-16, Royal Engineers, at the bottom: Winners of United Services League, Runners up of HK Challenge Sheild. Like all the photos I believe my great grandfather, John Kempton is somewhere in there but I have no idea where. I have done some research and it seems to be a military football (soccer) league and this is their "winning" portrait but I would love to identify the people in the photo or find a newsclipping on the games or the team.  I have tried the mmis.hkpl.gov.hk site but have had no luck yet. Any tips or advice is appreciated.  

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Submitted by David on Sun, 2015-03-22 22:23.

Unfortunately MMIS doesn't return many results for searches on the competitions mentioned above. So you'll need to make a slower, manual trawl through the papers.

You can speed it up a bit by just looking at the Monday editions, which report the weekend's matches. A quick search found a mention of the R.E.s playing a match in the United Services League in the Hong Kong Telegraph dated 1916-02-14, on page 9. It lists the members of the team, but no Kempton is listed playing on that day.

See: https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/coverpage/-/coverpage/view?_coverpage_WAR_mmisp...

Regards, David