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Swimming Pool, Lo Wu Camp, New Territories, Hong Kong 1980

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2021-09-26 00:52

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For the Op Culex tour of Hong Kong (see below), Royal Regiment of Wales Battalion Headquarters and C Company were based at Lo Wu Camp near the main border with the People's Republic of China. On arrival, there was a disused swimming pool, filled with rubbish, which we immediately cleaned out and recommissioned. It was very welcome in the heat and humidity! <Read more ...>

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1980

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You keep me hangin' on

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 00:24

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>