Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1927
A second photo of Kai Tak Airfield that is dated from 1927, likely soon after the RAF had requisitioned the hanger. The aircraft in the hangar is a Fleet Air Arm/RAF Fairey Flycatcher.<Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1927
(Update) - A photo here of a Fairey Flycatcher in the matshed hangar suggests the photo was taken in 1927 after the RAF had requisitioned the hangar for their activities.
The flag flying over the seawall is noted as belonging to the Brockman and Hetling's First Dutch Aviation Company which operated briefly at Kai Tak in early 1926.
Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
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