Maj (Ret'd Brian Finch MCIL served in The Middlesex Regiment with one of the survivors of the Lisbon Maru Incident. He later learned Chinese and during his time in Hong Kong had close links with The Lisbn Maru Association of Hong Kong. He translated their account of the incident seen through the eyes of the Chinese fishermen who rescued hundreds of British prisoners of war under fire from Japanese soldiers on 2 October 1942. The translation was published in November 2017 by Proverse Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
I note with interest that HK actor, Anthony Wong Chau-sang (黃秋生), is still searching for his information regarding his British father, Frederick William Perry. It seems not much is known other than he worked for the Colonial Govt and left when Anthony was still a toddler. <Read more ...>
James Legge graduated from Aberdeen University in 1836 and joined the London Missionary Society two years after. He was sent to Malacca in 1840 where he assumed the post of principal of the Anglo-Chinese college founded by Robert Morrison. When the school moved to Hong Kong in1843, Legge remained as Principal. He was a great Sinologue and was famous for his translation and annotation of the Chinese classics. He was a prominent resident of Hong Kong as he was an all round man: Scholar, missionary, minister, chaplain and Educationist.<Read more ...>
John William Russell, engineer, is given in the Jurors List of 1937 as working for CE Warren & Co. Ltd. This is the only Jurors List in which he is named and I haven't found him in earlier staff lists of CE Warren & Co. Ltd., not that I've been able to check them all. His address in 1937 is 11 Bayview Mansions, Causeway Bay. His will is recorded by Carl Smith. I don't know if this is the same John Russell whose grave is listed as 12A/04/17 in Patricia Lim's data base as having died aged 77 in 1959 and who is buried with his wife Helen. Her 1937 grave bears the CEW & Co. <Read more ...>
Geoffrey Wilson joined the Hong Kong Police in 1933. In 1936 he married Joy Noel Harris-Walker.
He was chosen to be part of 'Z' Force, a special operations unit which would work behind Japanese lines after an attack, but had to withdraw after it became clear this was incompatible with police duties during an invasion.
He was interned in Stanley, and in 1943 was involved with communicating with the British Army Aid Group in the organisation of an escape which never took place. <Read more ...>
