Submitted by Helen Browne on Mon, 2018-02-12 15:59
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1933
While sorting through some of my late parents’ photos, I came across one of San Wai Camp, so I looked it up on the internet and found Gwulo: Old Hong Kong.
My father was stationed here in 1933. On the back of the photo is written (writer not known) -
“Sun (sic) Wai Camp and Kwanti Race Course from ‘Cap Badge hill’ (as the troops call it for obvious reasons). The road beyond the race course runs away to Fanling Station about two miles to the right. Officers’ tents at the near left corner.
New Territories December 1933” <Read more ...>
Seen in the letter page of the June 2014 Who Do You Think You Are magazine relating a story of Gillian Cope, née Harnden who remembers the 1937 typhoon although only 7 years old, living with her parents in Kings Park Building in a third floor flat , overlooking Kowloon Cricket Club and the Indian Barracks. <Read more ...>
