List of Portuguese Members of HKVDC Drawing by Naneli Baptista. See also the album of his drawings. Many Portuguese men fought – and some died – in the defence of Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion in December 1941. Prisoners of war were interned in concentration camps in Hong Kong and elsewhere, where more died.* The defence of Hong […]
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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;
Return of a great survivorA veteran who fought against the Japanese in Hong KongThe South China Morning Post HongKongThursday September 7 1995As a young soldier, José Gosano had some close encounters with death. The teenage volunteer was in a foxhole on the slopes of Mount Davis when a Japanese bomb landed two metres away –
The Life of a VeteranBiography of Henry Anthony Souzaby Michael SouzaIn the List of HKVDC members, he appears as Henrique Antonio Sousa – Ed.In 1841, after losing the First Opium War, China ceded Hong Kong to the Great Britain. The Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), also known as “The Volunteers”, was established in 1854 to
Padre Manuel Teixeira[This is an extract, roughly translated, from a series of articles in Portuguese about Macau during the Second World War, written apparently by Fr Manuel Teixeira in the early 1980s.]After 40 years, few today remember a man who, during World War II (1941-1945), organised a project of interracial salvation that supported 35,000 families,
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
The Life of a VeteranBiography of Henry Anthony Souzaby Michael SouzaIn the List of HKVDC members, he appears as Henrique Antonio Sousa – Ed.In 1841, after losing the First Opium War, China ceded Hong Kong to the Great Britain. The Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), also known as “The Volunteers”, was established in 1854 to
The Sorry Treatment of our War HeroesBy Anthony CorreaFirst published in the Bulletin of the Lusitano Club (Hong Kong). Top row standing: Army Instructor, , , Luís Romano Sequeira, Charles Edward Mackintosh, Alfredo Silva, Army Instructor, , , Alfredo Soares, ?, , , Army Instructor. Middle row kneeling: , Paulo Reis Front row sitting: ?,
Sir Albert Maria RodriguesOBE, CBE, MBE (Mil), ED, Chev. Legd’ Hon, KtGC (St. Sye), Ordem de Christo, LLD, JP1911 – 2006This 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, the only son of
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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
