Photo most likely taken in the Dutch Club (Hollandsche Club) in Hong Kong. My grandfather Pieter Marks (who worked there at the HK agency of the Dutch East-Indies Commercial Bank (incorrectly - if one asks me - aka as the Dutch India Commercial Bank, the 'Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank') until 1927/8 and there are also quite a few Royal Netherlands Navy officers on the picture. The photo was made by Mee Cheung Photographers of Ice House Lane (telephone no. 1013). Photo around 1924-1926.
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