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Posted on February 25, 2020 at 10:48am 0 Comments 0 Likes
A few years ago it was my good fortune to be the winning bidder for an old photograph album for sale on eBay. Research showed that it featured Louis Gordon McIntyre and his wife Tryphena nee Hanney from around 1915 when they lived and worked on the Rangamati Tea Garden in Assam. Their story and some of their photos can be…
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175 years ago today Inspector Charles MAY along with Sergeants Thomas SMITHERS and Hugh McGREGOR resigned from the Metropolitan Police Force in London and began their 5 month journey to Hong Kong in order to establish the Hong Kong Police Force. As the…
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A night's drinking led to a constable's dismissal from the Bristol Constabulary in 1882 but opened the door for recruitment to the Hong Kong Police. For the story of HK Police Sergeant Daniel Hall (later in life Licensee of the Brewers' Arms in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire)…
Posted on January 21, 2016 at 8:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
In the 19th. century constables for the European contingent of the Hong Kong Police were recruited from the UK. Most came from London's Metropolitan Police, Scottish Constabularies or the Royal Irish Constabulary but in 1882 the south-west of England was targetted with…
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