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Rudolf VAN ROSSUM [1909-1947]

Submitted by David on Wed, 2019-06-26 14:24
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
van Rossum
Given: 
Rudolf
Birth
Date: 
1909-12-25
Birthplace (town, state): 
Amsterdam
Death
Date: 
1947-04-17

Mentioned in the 1941 Jurors List:

Birthplace (country): 
Netherlands
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Anthonij BOSJE (aka Antony) [1902-????]

Submitted by David on Sun, 2019-06-23 17:35
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Bosje
Given: 
Anthonij
Alias / nickname: 
Antony
Birth
Date: 
1902-08-13
Birthplace (town, state): 
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

[Update 2020: Antony Bosje's grand-daughter has been in touch in the comments below and says that the man in the photo below isn't Antony, and that Antony never worked in Hong Kong. So the original owner of the album, and the identity of the man in the photo, are mysteries.]

He was the original owner of a small photo album I bought a few years ago. The seller included this note:

Birthplace (country): 
Netherlands

Guillaumine VAN DER LAAN (née EUGENE P. LE COCQ D ARMANDVILLE) [1904-2002]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2014-01-04 16:58
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
van der Laan
Given: 
Guillaumine
Maiden: 
Eugene P. le Cocq d Armandville
Birth
Date: 
1904-11-03
Birthplace (town, state): 
Heerlen
Death
Date: 
2002-08-21

Guillaumine E. P. Le Cocq d'Armandville married Jacobus van der Laan on December 10, 1927 in Palembang, Sumatra.

During the first 18 months of the Japanese occupation she lived with him at the Sun Wah Hotel. The couple were sent to Stanley in July 1943.

She died in the Hague aged 97.

Source:

http://gw.geneanet.org/evanderlaan?lang=en;pz=esther;nz=van+der+laan;ocz=0;p=guillaumine+e.p.;n=le+cocq+d+armandville

Birthplace (country): 
Netherlands
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Jacobus Hendrik VAN DER LAAN (aka Henk) [1900-1976]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2014-01-04 16:46
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
van der Laan
Given: 
Jacobus Hendrik
Alias / nickname: 
Henk
Birth
Date: 
1900-08-27
Birthplace (town, state): 
Groningen
Death
Date: 
c.1976-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Jacobus van der Laan was the manager of a bank the Netherlands Trading Society when war broke out.

After the surrender he was one of the bankers kept out of internment to liquidate the assets of their instutions. He and his wife lived at the Sun Wah Hotel until being sent to Stanley in July 1943 on the completion of their work.

 

Sources:

David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 313

Birthplace (country): 
Netherlands
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Johannes GRAF [1914-1988]

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-05-13 17:46
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Graf
Given: 
Johannes
Birth
Date: 
1914-02-10
Birthplace (town, state): 
Haarlem near Amsterdam
Death
Date: 
c.1988-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
Netherlands
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Charles Henri Maurice BOSMAN [c.1839-1892]

Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 2010-09-21 10:19
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Bosman
Given: 
Charles Henri Maurice
Birth
Date: 
c.1839-08-29 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
1892-11-10

Dutch born Bosman, arrived in Hong Kong about 1859 where, at the age of 20 he was working for the Dutch coolie trader,  Cornelius Koopmanschap.

He met a Ms. Sze and the first of their five children was born when he was 22 years old and she was 20.

In 1862, aged 24, the company name was changed to Bosman & Co. in Hong Kong, and Koopmanschap & Co in San Francisco.

Birthplace (country): 
Netherlands
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