HKVDC: Portuguese Members(including husbands of Macanese)Click on to see the person’s signatureHKVDC: Membros portugueses(incluindo maridos de mulheres macaenses)Clique em para ver a assinatura da pessoa = Sent to SendaiEnviado para Sendai = Sent to NagoyaEnviado para Nagoya=Died in battleMorreu em combate=Died in campFalecido em campo Nome, posto e númeroName, rank and number Unidade e localização
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The Long March A Longa Marcha Joyce Van Langenberg A feverish excitement swept through Tung Cheong Terrace from building to building, floor to floor and balcony to balcony like a succession of waves that rolled in from the sea towards the shingled beaches. The atmosphere was euphoric filled with wild anticipation unlike the trauma of
Philippe Yvanovich An edited version of a booklet previously distributed privately by Philippe Yvanovich. His family has kindly given permission for it to be included in this website.December 7, 1941After 10 am mass at St Theresa’s I went along to the Club Recreio for a game of hockey and lunch at the Club. Then we
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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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The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) Originally published in the Bulletin of the Lusitano Club of California, Vol. 27 No. 1, Spring 2017by Filomeno Baptista The Regiment was formed in 1854 in response to an appeal by the Colonial Secretary. Ninety nine residents, mostly Portuguese, signed up becoming the first Volunteers. It was disbanded when
The Sorry Treatment of our War HeroesBy Anthony CorreaFirst published in the Bulletin of the Lusitano Club (Hong Kong). Top row standing: Army Instructor, Victor Maria Nunes, Germano de Pinna, Luís Romano Sequeira, Charles Edward Mackintosh, Alfredo Silva, Army Instructor, Sebastião Rui da Silva, Sílvio Silvino de Sousa, Alfredo Soares, ?, Eduardo Francisco dos Passos,
Roll of Honour, Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong KongMany of those who died in the defence of Hong Kong in December 1941 are buried in Stanley Military Cemetery and recorded in the Roll of Honour. I have extracted the names of those whom I could identify as Macanese from that list. (In this I was aided
Memories of World War IIBy Henry d’AssumpçãoIt was a great feast-day, celebrating the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. For me, then seven years old in Hong Kong, it was a holiday from school, for my older brother a half-holiday. So breakfast was leisurely that morning when our father announced solemnly: “War can start any
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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