Adam Morrison HOLLAND [1886-1945]

Adam Morrison Holland was born in 1886 to Isabella and Adam Holland, his mother was a widow previously married to William Fleming. The family relocated to Clydebank and Adam Holland jnr worked as a shipwright in the shipyards. On 25th June 1914 he married Jessie Macdonald in Glasgow, she was the auxiliary nurse killed during the evacuation of Lt Forsyth and his Punjabi troops from Kowloon during the Japanese invasion on 11th December 1941.

The couple had 3 children, Isobel(1915), Alistair(1917) and Joan(1919);  Adam first sailed to Hong Kong in May 1919, and the family made half a dozen visits back to the UK over the next 20 years. Adam Holland's mother died on 2nd November 1931 in Invernessshire at the home of her daughter Annie, she was aged 88.

Adam Holland worked for the Public Works Department in Hong Kong, latterly as a buildings' inspector. In his leisure time he was a keen bowler, being Hong Kong Lawn Bowls champion in 1941.

Following the Japanese invasion he reported to the Stag Hotel in Hong Kong prior to incarceration in Stanley Camp where he died when a stray bomb struck Bungalow C on 16th January 1945.

Perhaps someone who had a relative in this building or interned in Stanley at this time might have knowledge or anecdotes of his period in Stanley in Bungalow C.

The "What links here" tab shows other pages that link here. One of them records Adam playing in the final of a Bowls match in Stanley Camp in 1942.