This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Chinese members of Swire who died in WW1 or WW2
Commemorated ati
Swire war memorial - 1
The names are grouped by brief company identifier, which we’ve recognised as ...
Swire war memorial - 2
The names, given on the other plaque, are not Chinese (being Smith, etc.) so ...
Other Subjects
Field-Marshal, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Garnet Joseph
Field Marshal. Born Dublin. Served in the Indian Rebellion and the Crimean War. Led the attempt to relieve Khartoum. 1895 - 1900 Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. The very model of the 'Mod...
Person, Armed Forces, Africa, Burma, Canada, China/Hong Kong, Crimea, France, India, Ireland
Ba Jin
Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang. Ba Jin was his pen name. Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's...
Arthur Waley
Poet, translator and orientalist. He never actually visited China nor Japan.
D. Blackman
Andrew Behan has researched this man: Date of birth is not known. Blackman, who worked for the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company in Hong Kong, was a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence...
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Prima ballerina assoluta. Born Reigate as Margaret Hookham. As a child lived for a time in Shanghai. Her stage name was based on "Fontes" the name of her mother's paternal family, wealthy Brazilia...
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J. Hepburn
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
Percy Alexander James Matthews
Rifleman. Number 601 of the London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Died in action at the age of 20. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
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