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Braathens-Schoolchildren's holiday plane-SCMP 8 Jan 1948

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2015-07-11 17:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1948

The Norwegian airline Braathens S.A.F.E. was the first airline to offer flights bring Hong Kong schoolchildren back for their summer holidays. This was in 1948. Later the SCMP reported their success and that one father who had been interned in Shamshuipo during war saw his son for the first time in nine years and another child had his first return visit in fourteen years. See also http://gwulo.com/node/27397

Children's party abt 1917-1918

Submitted by seemex on Sat, 2014-05-10 10:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1918

I am pretty sure this is a Hong Kong photo. My mother Iris Maud Hunter is the girl on the far right hand side of the photo. Her sister Nora Eileen is seated in the front row, second from right. They were both born in Kowloon. I don't know where the picture was taken or who the other children are. My family moved to Shanghai about 1919 or 1920 so this shot is borderline but judging by the look of the childrens ages I think it was before the move. My mother Iris was born in 1911 so I'm guessing at the ages in the photo.

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