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Pat TRING (née GUARD) [c.1929- ]

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-09-21 14:07
Status: 
Unknown
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Tring
Given: 
Pat
Maiden: 
Guard
Birth
Date: 
c.1929-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Barbara Anslow writes:

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong

Margaret Lilian BAILEY (née FLYNN, aka Peggy) [1932-2012]

Submitted by Bails on Wed, 2013-09-04 18:14
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Bailey
Given: 
Margaret Lilian
Maiden: 
Flynn
Alias / nickname: 
Peggy
Birth
Date: 
1932-05-25
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hong Kong
Death
Date: 
2012-09-05

Born 1932 in Naval Hospital, The Peak. Father was ex-Royal Navy, Chinese Maritime Customs Officer. The family, along with the family of my father, were interned at the hands of the Japanese in Chapei Prison Camp in Shanghai. They were all liberated by the Americans after the surrender and were offered repatriation to UK shortly afterwards. My mother's family, minus her father (who chose to remain in Hong Kong), went back to the UK on HMS Belfast.

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong

Arthur Cecil WARREN [1906-1930]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2013-09-02 20:54
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Warren
Given: 
Arthur Cecil
Birth
Date: 
1906-08-06
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hong Kong
Death
Date: 
1930-04-21
Cause of death: 
Pulmonary tuberculosis

Arthur Cecil Warren was the fourth child of Charles Edward Warren and Hannah Mabel Warren. Like his brothers he was educated in Hong Kong, Canada and England. He joined C.E. Warren & Co., Hong Kong in 1923 the same year that his father died and at the same time as his elder brother, Leslie, took over management of the company.

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong

Cecilia TARRANT (née MILLAR) [c.1878-1940]

Submitted by elainehenshaw on Fri, 2013-08-16 23:56
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Tarrant
Given: 
Cecilia
Maiden: 
Millar
Birth
Date: 
c.1878-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
1940-01-23

Firstly what an amazing site this is!

I came across it trying to establish the family of Cecilia Tarrant nee Millar. Cecilia was married to John Arthur Tarrant between 1900-1906.  John Arthur Tarrant worked for A&S Watson. There seem to be a couple of Millar families in Kowloon and I wondered if anyone knew if Cecilia was connected to them?

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
Which Millar family was Cecilia connected to?

Chris POTTER [1941- ]

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2013-08-06 16:28
Status: 
Living
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Potter
Given: 
Chris
Birth
Date: 
1941-09-03

Chris wrote in to the Stanley Camp Discussion List:

I regret coming so late to your party! ..and I'm not sure how probing the old scar tissue is going to work out - but here goes anyway..

As I read the old messages a bell jangles in several places - too many to cover in one hit, so I'll pick on a couple.

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Joan IZARD (née FRANKLIN) [1935- ]

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2013-07-18 20:37
Status: 
Living
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Izard
Given: 
Joan
Maiden: 
Franklin
Birth
Date: 
c.1935-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Thanks to Joan for these notes about her life:

I was born in Hong Kong in 1935 & stayed there until I left with my mother, brother and sister on the M/V "Neptuna" in August of 1940, bound for Australia.  (Incidentally the "Neptuna" was later sunk in Darwin.)

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
Evacuated to Australia in 1940

Douglas Percy FRANKLIN [1925-2012]

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2013-07-18 20:35
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Franklin
Given: 
Douglas Percy
Birth
Date: 
1925-10-07
Death
Date: 
2012-08-28
Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
Evacuated to Australia in 1940

Oi-Yan CHIU [c.1958- ]

Submitted by chiuoiyan on Tue, 2013-07-16 13:30
Status: 
Living
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Chiu
Given: 
Oi-Yan
Birth
Date: 
c.1958-08-16 (Year is approximate)

1961 Hong Kong at Kowloon City Pier - child abandoned is looking for her parents

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
kowloon
pier
Kowloon City Pier
abandoned
child
City

Alfred Ernest ABLONG [1916-1992]

Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2013-07-11 16:46
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Ablong
Given: 
Alfred Ernest
Birth
Date: 
c.1916-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
c.1992-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Not to be confused with his father of the same name.

Alfred Ernest Ablong was in the Volunteers andd he appears on a Colonial Office list of POWs in Shamshuipo as Ablong A. E. Jnr., HKVDC Corporal 2468.

At some point after the war he migrated to the USA and died in Glendale California.

Sources:

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/hkvdc.html

Hong Kong - Official Lists (Colonial Office)

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong

Florence Alice PROULX (née SIMMONS, aka Flo) [1900-1962]

Submitted by amp51 on Tue, 2013-06-18 10:34
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Proulx
Given: 
Florence Alice
Maiden: 
Simmons
Alias / nickname: 
Flo
Birth
Date: 
1900-03-19
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hong Kong
Death
Date: 
c.1962-05-16 (Day is approximate)
Cause of death: 
Heart Failure due to esophageal cancer

Died in Dublin and buried at Deansgrange Cemetery.

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

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