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World war II

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

George B. Endacott and Geoffrey Emerson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-044
Scope and Contents

The Endacott and Emerson Collection is composed of newspaper clippings detailing Hong Kong history (mostly related to World War II), lecture notes, and journals, magazines, and documentation of the Stanley Prison Camp.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1942-1980

Gordon King Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-013
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence and other documents relating to the wartime degrees granted to students to fled Hong Kong during World War II to continue their studies in Free China. There are also some papers relating to general HKU and Faculty of Medicine business, as well as photographs of King and his family. All the documents are mainly related to Faculty of Medicine of HKU during war time (including their placements, further studies, graduation as well as...
Dates: 1942 - 1976

John Gerald Heath Lander Papers

 Collection — Box 03632
Identifier: 2015-010
Content Description This collection contains 53 letters from John Gerald Heath Lander to his wife Betty written in 1941. At the time John was in Hong Kong and Kathleen Elizabeth Francis Lander (Betty) was in the Philippines. Also included is one CD that contains scanned copies of the letters as well as a background on the letters and the Lander family. The letters mostly contain day to day information about family members, colleagues at Shell, and other British people in Hong Kong at the time. Overall Lander's...
Dates: 1941-06-14 - 1941-12-02

Morrison Hall Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-010
Content Description

Records related to Morrison Hall including Morrison Hall Constitution, Old Morrisonians, and Annual Audit. The records in this collection cover the period between the end of World War II and when the University of Hong Kong assumed administration of the Hall in the 1960s.

Dates: 1948 - 1965

Simon K. Y. Lee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-011
Scope and Contents The collection contains official documents as well as personal papers which provide insight into the public and private life of Dr Simon Y.K. Lee Life. It includes 9 mortgage documents regarding Inland Lot No. 2950 (No. 18 Tung Shan Terrace, Stubbs Road), two certified translations from French, a property deed certified by the Japanese during World War II, a receipt from Kowloon Motor Bus Co. Ltd (Kowloon bus advertising). As for the personal papers, the collection comprises 2 diaries which...
Dates: 1927 - 1968

Sir Lindsay Ride Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-027
Content Description This collection consists of the personal papers and effects of Sir Lindsay Tasman Ride. There are documents including letters, speeches, notes, and other materials relating to both Ride’s role as a professor of physiology and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Also included are materials relating to his military services with the Hong Kong Volunteer Defense Corps (HKVDC) and British Army Aid Group (BAAG). In the 1950s Ride became interested in the Protestant Cemetery in...
Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined