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Carlinhos d'Assumpção birthday party 1936
Standing, back row
João d'Assumpção, Carlota Figueiredo, Manuela da Luz carrying Pamela Correa, Roberto "Pão" Sousa, Quito d'Assumpção carried by Alzira Yvanovich
Standing, 2nd row
Bobbie Remedios, Celsa Monteiro, Marie Guterres, Tony Lopes, Calau Yvanovich, ?, Boy-Boy, Edith Xavier, Marie Lopes, Ramona Xavier, Teresa Yvanovich carrying ?, Therese "Tessie" Lopes
Standing, front row
Sebastian Carvalho, Daniel Rocha, Gilberto da Luz, Tony Rocha, Bernard Brown, Chappy Remedios, ?, Catherine "Cat" Remedios, Bernardine Remedios, Carlinhos d'Assumpção, Wanda Rodrigues, Edo Noronha, ?Theresa da Rosa, ?Teresa Rodrigues, Jacqueline Sousa, Geraldine "Gerry" Silva, Gerald Van Langenberg, Therese Remedios, Shirley Van Langenberg, Rene Remedios, Basilio "Lilo" Xavier
Seated
Carlos Remedios, Junior Remedios, Frankie Correa, Bosco Correa, Danny Tavares, Carlos d'Assumpção, ?, ?Patsy Houghton, Freda Silva, Eddie SilvaSource

Carlinhos d'Assumpção birthday party 1937
Top row standing: Theresa Yvanovich, Gloria da Roza, Elga or Esmeralda Xavier?, Unknown infant, Sonny Monteiro.
Second row standing: ?, Doreen Houghton, ?, Therese d'Almada Remedios, Marie Guterres, Telmo Remedios, Freddie "Boy Boy" Brown, Bobbie Houghton, Basilio "Lilo" Xavier, Rene Remedios, Frankie Correa, ?, Carlos "Buddy" Xavier, Tony Rocha.
Third row standing: ?, ?, ?, Jacqueline Xavier, ?, ?, ?, ?, Bernardine d'Almada Remedios, Guida Marques, Carlos d'Almada Remedios, Chappy d'Almada Remedios, Carlos "Carlinhos" d'Assumpção, Bernard Brown, Danny Houghton, Jose Guterres, Gilberto da Luz ?, Manuel Guterres, Edo Noronha, Junior Remedios, Ramona Xavier ?, Catherine Remdios ?.
Front row:standing/sitting: Carlos d'Assumpção, ?, ?, Carlota Figueiredo ?, Sylvia Carvalho ?, Olivia Marques, Daniel Rocha, Henrique "Quito" d'Assumpção, Pamela Correa, Bosco Correa, ?, ?, ?, Jojo Alonco, Edith Xavier Source

Top Row: "Quito" d'Assumpção, Michael Osmund, Gustavo da Roza, Eddie Loureiro, Carlinhos d'Assumpção, Jose "Doc" Guterres, Gerald Pomeroy, Sonny Castro, Eric Remedios, Antonio Guterres, Eugenio Xavier, Ramon Loureiro, George Noronha
2nd Row: John "Junior" Pomeroy, Peter Law, Manuel Nunes
3rd Row: Vera Brown, Sylvia Sousa, Olivia Marques, Millie Baptista, Jacqueline Xavier, Guida Marques, Therese Ribeiro, Pedro Braga, Bosco Correa, Antonio "Chico" Braga
Seated: Frances Gaan, Lourdes Guterres, Marie-Cecille Basto, Marie-Camille Barros, Sheila Collaco, Sylvia de Carvalho, Vilma Pinna, Rita da Roza, Christine d'Almada Remedios
Sitting on floor: Frances Gaan, Maria "Jean-Jean" d'Assumpção, Gerry Baptista, Jose "Zeca" Braga, Manuel GuterresSource

Back: Anthony Correa, Paul and Marcus d'Assumpção, Noreen and Daniel Souza, Rebecca Correa
Front: Eliana, Sebastian and Catarina Correa
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Front Row: Francisco "Frank" Correa (LSC), Bertie Gosano (SJC), Philippe Yvanovich (LSC), José "Dick" Alves (LSC), Joe Guterres (SJC), Carlos "Calau" Yvanovich (LSC), Antonio "Tony" Reis (LSC), A.P "Spotty" Pereira (SJC), Leo Vieira (LSC), Eurico "Rococco" Rosario(LSC), George Sousa (SJC).
Middle Row: Henrique "Eric" Remedios (LSC), Luigi "Bosco" Guterres (LSC), Eduardo "Eddie" d'Almada Remedios (LSC).
Back Row: Bro. Brandon (Head Master St. Joseph College), Dr. Horatio "Ozo" Ozorio (SJC), Elysio "Ely" Alves (SJC), Willy Maher (SJC), Dr. Sir Albert Rodrigues (SJC), Bro. Felix (Head Master La Salle College), Arnaldo "Sonny" de O Sales (LSC), Jose "Jackie" Noronha (SJC), Diniz "Denis" Rodrigues (LSC), José "Zecas" Oliviera (SJC), Henrique "Henry" A. Barros (SJC), Alvaro "Honey' de Sousa (SFX Shanghai), Mancio Sousa (SJC), Leo da Silva (SJC), Miguel "Mickey" d'Almada Remedios (LSC), Bro. Michael (La Salle College), Unknown.
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Chappy Remedios, Frank Correa, Jorge Remedios
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Back: Frank Correa, Marilyn Correa, Jorge Remedios, Bosco Correa
Front: Vivi Correa, Estelle Ozorio, Marie-Cecile Remedios, Francis Ozorio, Chappy Remedios
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Top row standing: Army Instructor, Victor Maria Nunes, Germano de Pinna, Luís Romano Sequeira, Charles Edward Mackintosh, Alfredo Silva, Army Instructor, Sebastião Rui da Silva, Sílvio Silvino de Sousa, Alfredo Soares, ?, Eduardo Franscisco dos Passos, Joaquim Jerónimo Guterres, Army Instructor.
Middle row kneeling: Thomas Castilho, Paulo Reis
Front row sitting: ?, Mem Maria Alves de Vasconcelos Soares(with machine gun), Arthur James Brown, Caetano Maria Dias Azedo, Francisco Vicente Vieira Ribeiro, Meno Silva [?Filomeno Henrique Gomes da Silva #6856], Jock Gardner (with machine gun), Luís Gonzaga de Pina
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Frank Soares at the front steps of his home
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Frank Soares plucking fruit from his garden.
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Soares residence at 2 Liberty Avenue in Homantin
Photo taken by Luis ("Luigi") Antonio M. da V. Soares

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This photo is taken from Kadoorie Avenue with Argyle Street in the foreground and looking south down Peace Avenue with the Kowloon Canton Railway line running parallel to it. The present Jesuit-run Wah Yan College is to the middle right of the photo. Homantin Hill is in the background and Hong Kong island is in the far back ground. Again the cutting on the hill to the left of the picture is where Victory Avenue is today and you can see in this photo the actual laying down of the road work for Victory Avenue. Soares, Emma and Julia Avenues were not yet in existence when this photo was taken as they are where the unlevelled hill to the extreme left of the photo is. The avenues named Peace, Liberty and Victory were so named by my grandfather Soares in commemoration of the ending of World War I known then as the Great War.
J. Bosco Correa 2008
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This photo circa 1920, showing the corner of Waterloo Road and Peace Avenue in Homantin, was taken from the railway embankment just before the railway bridge over Waterloo Road. Note the open storm "nullah" running down the middle of Waterloo Road and the absence of traffic apart from the two rickshaws. Interestingly Waterloo Road was originally known as Coronation Road.
The corner house was the home of Manuel de Figueiredo and one house up from his on Waterloo Road belonged to his brother-in-law Francisco "Chico" da Silva.
To the right of the photo showing the cutting in the hillside is where Victory Avenue is today, and the hill itself after it was levelled by pickaxe and shovel is where the three streets Soares, Emma and Julia Avenues are located. These streets were named in honour of my maternal grandfather Francisco Paulo de Vasconcellos Soares and family, his wife Emma and his daughter Julia (my mother).
The road running parallel to the railway track is Peace Avenue and the house next to Manuel Figueredo's belonged to Estefânio "Faneo" da Luz, following this is the home of Mr Tsang owner of the Yellow Taxicab Company (recessed into their property and not visible in the photo), then comes the home of Eugenio dos Remedios who named it "Alvege" which is made up of the first letter of the name of each of his six daughters. Following this is the home of Artur Alvares Alves then we have the twin residences of Artur F Osmund and his son-in-law Fernando E d'Almada Remedios.
The Kowloon (Nine Dragons) Hills are in the distant background and looking north at the far end of Peace Avenue is the hill where the present Diocesan Boys' School is located.J. Bosco Correa 2008

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Homantin Development from Kadoorie Avenue circa 1920
This photo is taken from Kadoorie Avenue with Argyle Street in the foreground and looking south down Peace Avenue with the Kowloon Canton Railway line running parallel to it. The present Jesuit-run Wah Yan College is to the middle right of the photo. Homantin Hill is in the background and Hong Kong island is in the far back ground. Again the cutting on the hill to the left of the picture is where Victory Avenue is today and you can see in this photo the actual laying down of the road work for Victory Avenue. Soares, Emma and Julia Avenues were not yet in existence when this photo was taken as they are where the unlevelled hill to the extreme left of the photo is. The avenues named Peace, Liberty and Victory were so named by my grandfather Soares in commemoratio[n of the ending of World War I known then as the Great War.
[J. Bosco Correa 2008
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Home of Francisco Paulo de Vasconcellos Soares

This is a photo of the home of my maternal grandfather Francisco (Frank) Paulo de Vasconcellos Soares at 2 Liberty Avenue, Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was a very large house with a substantial garden. His whole family including my parents, my siblings and I lived there.

At the outbreak of the Pacific War on 8 December 1941 he was the Acting Consul for Portugal in Hong Kong. When the Japanese attacked Hong Kong he transferred the Consulate from the Bank of East Asia building in the Central District of Hong Kong island to his residence in Homantin as the majority of Portuguese residents lived in Kowloon. When the British abandoned Kowloon on 10 December and fell back to the island there was no law and order in Kowloon. Marauding gangs of armed looters took advantage of the situation and broke into businesses, shops and private homes to pillage them. Portuguese and other foreign residents in northern Kowloon sought refuge in the Portuguese 'enclave' in Homantin. My grandfather took in 398 refugees in our home; our neighbours also took in their relatives and close friends.

To this day I am in awe as to how, just a month short of his 73rd birthday and semi-crippled, he was able to cope with this crisis. He had to organise the accommodation of so many people, feed them, arrange for sanitary facilities, find fuel for cooking, etc., as gas, electric and water supplies as well as telephone communication were cut off. He also had to arrange for security to protect the district against the looters by establishing a Street Guard made up of Portuguese men. This situation continued until the arrival of the Japanese. He went out to meet these shock troops who were in camouflage uniforms and ready for a fight and informed them that the district was a neutral zone and requested the Japanese to protect its residents, which they did. His interpreter was my cousin Mario Augusto Correa Guterres who had been born in Yokohama, Japan and was fluent in Japanese.

Those were very difficult and extraordinary times and my grandfather rose to the occasion!

J. Bosco Correa 2016

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Vivi and Peter, Frank and Michael, Anthony
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Frankie and Vivi Correa family 40th wedding anniversary
Seated: Rebecca Correa with baby Catarina Correa, Heidi Correa with baby Ella Correa,Vivi Correa, Frank Correa, Joanna Correa, Meg Kelly with baby Leonardo Edward Kelly Correa
Standing: Anthony Correa, Michael Correa, Gauthier Bouchardeau, Peter Correa
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Leonard Jude Rozario (Honorary Secretary Club de Recreio), Dr Tito Rodrigues (President, Club de Recreio), Anthony Correa (Chairman of Governors, Portuguese Community Education and Welfare Foundation), Patrick Rozario (President, Club Lusitano), Carlos Magno Braga Antunes
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Catarina, Anthony and Sebastian Correa
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