A short biography of Genevieve BAGLIN, prepared by her nephews Jean-Jacques and Jean Louis Lecoeur.
Genevieve Pauline Baglin was born on July 18, 1904 in Colombes, a suburb of Paris in France. Her parents had returned there from Russia.
Her first two years were spent in France, before the family moved to Durham in England in 1906. They moved to Clay Cross in 1907, spent 1907 to 1911 in Chesterfield, then moved to Sheffield. While in England she and her sister Helen attended a school run by nuns. <Read more ...>
Kleber E M Caudron, was known as Maurice Caudron and was the Proprietor of K Caudron & Co. The company was trading with exotic goods between France and Hong Kong eg: textiles, perfumes, ornaments etc. K. Caudron & Co. was registered in HK as a private company on 18 March 1964 and dissolved on 8 December 2005. <Read more ...>
My mother, Helene Marie Caudron Brooks, was the 2nd of the three daughters of Maurice (Kleber) and Marcelle Caudron. She was born in Ohain, Nord, France and as a young girl went with her family to live in Singapore for a few years before moving with them in her teens to Hong Kong in the early 1930s where her father set up a trading company operating between France and Hong Kong. He family retained their property in northern France and she travelled there often. <Read more ...>
Louis Reynaud was appointed French Consul-General in Hong Kong on January 5, 1940.
He was consistently anti-Axis and after the Fall of France identified with the Free French - he was one of the few diplomats who managed to stay in post without swearing loyalty to the Vichy regime. He co-operated as little as possible with the Japanese during the occupation.
He was already frail in 1940 and he died in the French Hospital in Causeway Bay on July 6, 1943 after a long illness.
