Reminiscences of World War IIJ Bosco CorreaOn the day that Japan surrendered, my mother , my brother and I attended a Te Deum at St. Teresa’s Church in thanksgiving for the end of the war. Afterwards, we were amongst a small group of Portuguese (mainly ladies) standing in front of the church when a work […]
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Adeus Macauby Nuno Loureiro d’EçaThis memoir was originally published in the UMA News Bulletin Nov-Dec 1998The late Nuno Loureiro d’Eça lived in New Zealand after the war.The end of Macau as a Portuguese-administered territory is fast approaching and before that chapter closes I would like to express my sentiments and to relate a few anecdotes. This
Obituary: Mr José Luíz de Selavisa Alves [known as “Jico” to his friends]The Hongkong Telegraph 11 July 1927 Counted amongst the earliest foreign settlers in the Colony, the late Mr Alves came over to Hongkong from Macao while yet a very young man and, because of his knowledge of the English language, soon found employment in
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Colonel who took a secret to the grave The South China Morning Post HongKong by Jason Wordie, Sunday October 3 1999 The death last Sunday of Colonel Henrique Alberto de Barros Botelho at the age of 93 removes a major player in a long and significant part of Hong Kong’s history – the once prominent local
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The Menezes family crest Família Ribeiro The family history and photobiography of Fernando and Maria Fernanda de Menezes Ribeiro Peter Grills Familia Ribeiro: The family history and photobiography of Fernando and Maria Fernanda de Menezes Ribeiro was originally published as a book. SBN 978 1 74027 488 3Copyright © text Peter Grills 2008First published 2008Prepared for the author
Some war-time reminiscences by Frederic (Jim) Silva, 2012 I was in Macau for 3 years during World War II. I finished my high school education there under the tuition of Irish Jesuit priests from a very prestigious High School in HongKong. I was in HK after the Japanese invasion for nearly one year, aged 14;
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