Insight - really an 'all the historical stuff in one place' page
(some of which is reachable through other links on the site)
Newmarket, Newmarket & its HKPs - policemen featured in PHKIH
Co. Cork Family Trees - the two 'strands' of Newmarket men in HK
St Michael's graves - so many ended their days in Hongkong
Crimes & the men Canton Road, 1923 - a violent shoot-out in Yaumatei & the who police them medals awarded afterwards
Felix Villas murder, 1930 - an unsolved crime. PDF on link or also available through Gwulo
Crimes in Hong Kong, 1918 - Patricia O'Sullivan talking with Annemarie Evans for Hong Kong Heritage RTHK - podcast
Gresson St Affray Centenary - with Annemarie Evans on the anniversary of the siege -podcast
Gresson St. Siege 100 years on - SCMP marks the anniversary with this article by Stuart Heaver
Also at Gresson Street - some of the many others involved in the 1918 Wanchai siege. (PDF)
Henry "Kid" Marriott - Dockyard policeman and noted boxer, a hero of Gresson St - article by Richard Morgan (PDF)
Patrick Frances Boulger - of the HKP who was in charge of Cheung Chau P/Station when attacked by pirates (PDF)
Cheung Chau carnage - SCMP article on the pirate raid and its aftermath
More HK history Hong Kong Fire Brigade at 150 - a Hong Kong Heritage podcast exploring its history
Nursing in Hong Kong - the British nurses here in the early part of the 20th century by
Diane O'Hare (PDF)
The perils of nursing in HK - part of a newspaper article from 1913 lamenting the treatment of nursing sisters (PDF)
Cadets: the start of HK's Civil Service - RTHK Hong Kong Heritage on the first seven Cadet Officers - podcast
Henry Ernest Wodehouse - HK's 7th cadet, long time Magistrate & Coroner, father to novelist PG Wodehouse - podcast
HK celebrates St Patrick's Day - a 'then & now' article for
St Patrick's Day 2019 in SCMP
Celebrating the Peace 1919 - when all HK was festooned with red lanterns to celebrate the end of the Great War. Gwulo article
I'm currently working on books dealing with Hong Kong's women in crime before 1941 and the HK Police who went to the First World War, so expect some additions along those lines. And ages ago I said that I was preparing service dates, ranks and medals achieved by the Newmarket policemen; 'Having a baby in Hongkong 1910 style' so I had really better get on with those too! October 2019
The Book
Policing Hong Kong: an Irish History -
Irishmen in the Hong Kong Police Force 1864-1950
By Patricia O'Sullivan
published by Blacksmith Books
Hong Kong 2017
ISBN 978 988 77927
