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Leo LANDAU [????-????]

Submitted by Barbara Landau ... on Wed, 2017-06-28 16:29
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Landau
Given: 
Leo

During the War my father Leo was a volunteer , and captured and was in camp..he was in the kitchens so survived ....helped build the airport…

After the war, Leo went to China Building and found where Jimmy’s Kitchen had been..and then stumbled into some of his faithful staff (there were some extraordinary people there, brave Chinese..Sammy the manager etc) and they put together chairs etc they found around..and the restaurant came back to life..only with their help.

Tags: 
POW
HKVDC

Anatole Nicholas ZAVADSKY / TONOFF / TOWNLEY [1917-1974]

Submitted by lloydt on Sun, 2017-04-09 19:40
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Zavadsky / Tonoff / Townley
Given: 
Anatole Nicholas
Birth
Date: 
1917-07-08
Birthplace (town, state): 
Omsk, Siberia
Death
Date: 
1974-12-09
Cause of death: 
Cardiac arrest

Anatole was born with the family name Zavadsky, but his father, Nicholas Alexander Zavadsky (violinist and photographer), changed the family name to Tonoff after arriving in Harbin China in 1921. Within a year or two, Anatole's parents divorced. His mother, Nina Engelgardt (mezzo soprano) married Vladimir Trachtenberg (violinist), and they remained in Harbin and Shenyang until 1959. By about 1930, Anatole had arrived in Hong Kong with his father, and his father's mother Claudia Gruzin.

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HKVDC
POW

Boris Georgievich / Boris George MILENKO (aka Bob) [1917-1984]

Submitted by MichaelM on Sun, 2017-04-09 19:19
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Milenko
Given: 
Boris Georgievich / Boris George
Alias / nickname: 
Bob
Birth
Date: 
1917-11-01
Birthplace (town, state): 
Votkinsk
Death
Date: 
1984-09-27

Boris Milenko was born in central Russia during the Russian Revolution - the civil war which followed resulted in the Milenko family, along with many other White Russians who opposed the Red Russian communists, relocating to Harbin, Manchuria in 1920. Boris' father (Yuri Lukich Milenko) was a lawyer in St Petersburg prior to the Revolution, and continued to practice as a solicitor in Harbin from 1920 until the late 1940s.

Birthplace (country): 
Russia
Tags: 
CNCo
HKU
HKVDC

National Arboretum, England. HKVDC Memorial

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Mon, 2017-03-20 02:08
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Douglas Harvey Collins TAYLOR [c.1921-1941]

Submitted by David on Sun, 2017-01-01 16:58
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Taylor
Given: 
Douglas Harvey Collins
Birth
Date: 
c.1921-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
1941-12-25
Cause of death: 
Killed fighting the Japanese at Stanley
Tags: 
HKVDC

Charles McConnell SLOAN (aka Chucky) [1914-????]

Submitted by Stewart Sloan on Tue, 2016-12-13 17:39
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Sloan
Given: 
Charles McConnell
Alias / nickname: 
Chucky
Birth
Date: 
c.1914-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

My father, Charles McConnell Sloan was born in Hong Kong in 1914, the son of John Sloan, an employee of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery.

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
HKVDC
POW

Leslie COXHILL [????- ]

Submitted by David on Sun, 2016-12-11 19:33
Status: 
Unknown
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Coxhill
Given: 
Leslie
Tags: 
HKVDC

Boris Abraham GELLMAN [????- ]

Submitted by David on Fri, 2016-12-09 13:39
Status: 
Unknown
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Gellman
Given: 
Boris Abraham

In December 1941 he was the Night Reception Clark at the Repulse Bay Hotel.

He's mentioned in the Jurors Lists for 1938-40 inclusive with that job.

Notes on the POW camps he was at in Japan from the Roll of Honour website:

Hiroshima 5B - Innoshima

(Earlier Yahata - Mukaijima Branch Camp then  Fukuoka 12B)

Tags: 
HKVDC
POW

KALAZHNY [????- ]

Submitted by David on Fri, 2016-12-09 13:37
Status: 
Unknown
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kalazhny

In December 1941 he was the sub-manager of the Repulse Bay Hotel.

Tags: 
HKVDC
POW

James Thomas DUPUY [????-????]

Submitted by David on Tue, 2016-11-15 15:07
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Dupuy
Given: 
James Thomas

Philip Cracknell writes:

Tags: 
HKVDC
POW

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