Delfino Joaquim de NoronhaDelfino Joaquim de Noronha was one of the leading members of the Portuguese community in Hong Kong in the first half-century. Soon after the first Opium War (1839-1842) he saw that opportunities would be far greater there than in Macau, which soon fell into a steep decline. In Hong Kong he became […]
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Revisiting the Reed Brothers , with pictures added.All posthumous war accounts have a Rashomon-like quality in their telling. The story of the four Reed brothers who died in the Battle of Hong Kong is no exception. Theirs is not only a distinctively proud Hong Kong story but also a tragic family story of brotherly bonding.
My Wartime Experiences and subsequent imprisonment under the JapaneseDecember 1941 to August 1945Luíz “Luigi” Vieira RibeiroThis has been edited into a form suitable for website, with images and links to Personal Pages added — HdA (Ed.)As far as I can recall, this typescript came to me from my uncle, Tony Braga, who was also a
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Sir Albert Maria RodriguesOBE, CBE, MBE (Mil), ED, Chev. Legd’ Hon, KtGC (St. Sye), Ordem de Christo, LLD, JP1911 – 2006 This is a slightly edited version of an article published in the Bulletin of Club Lusitano of Hong Kong, 12 June 2017. Albert Maria Rodrigues was born on the 5th November 1911,
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Gil V. DaSilva – Autobiography From my birth in October, 1935 until we left Shanghai in June, 1950, we lived at the Emerald Apartments on Rue Ratard. All of the major events during that period occurred while living there: the U.S. declaration of war on Japan in December, 1941; the Japanese surrender in August, 1945;
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FATHER JOSÉ “ZINHO” GOSANO First published in the UMA Bulletin Apr-Jun 2011 Vol 34 No 2 [Editor’s Note: A number of years ago the late Fr Zinho Gosano’s friend in New Zealand, a Father John Griffin, sent the UMA News Bulletin editor a floppy diskette containing an autobiographical narrative