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Panel 1: Early Life and Family Background

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    • Introductory Panel
    • Panel 1: Early Life and Family Background
    • Panel 2: The Harbin Years
    • Panel 3: Shanghai to Hong Kong, High School to Medical School
    • Panel 4: World War II and POW Days
    • Panel 5: Post-war Culture and the Sino-British Orchestra
    • Panel 6: Getting a New City Hall
    • Panel 9: The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
    • Panel 10: Doctoring: Creating the University of Hong Kong Student Health Service plus the Volunteers and Medical Missions in the New Territories
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  various cities and lines of work

Members of Bard’s family and his wife’s family worked at various times at many trade including as jewelers, watch-makers, opticians, furriers, musicians and music teachers, doctors, pharmacists, bookkeepers, dance instructors, and timber merchants: members lived at various points in Warsaw, Moscow, Sebastopol, Chita, Beirut, Aleppo, Berlin,  Harbin, Shanghai, Riga, Nice, London, New York, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Sydney, and of course Hong Kong.

 

  Chita, an important railroad junction

Here’s a simple map showing where Chita is and its position on the Trans-Siberian RR, going in one direction back to Moscow and St. Petersburg, and in the other at the junction of two lines, one going across the rest of Russia to Vladivostok and one going southeast to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese railway system.


(Source: Trans-Siberian Express)

 

  Chinese Eastern Railway

Here’s a map showing the Chinese Eastern Railway as it existed in the early 20th century showing the crucial position of Harbin, the links to Russia, and the links to southern Manchuria, Beijing, etc. (The one thing that does not look the way it would have in that period is that whoever drew the map has put in the names of North Korea and South Korea, along with border between them. Until 1945 the peninsula was the Japanese colony of Korea, with non N/S border)


(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

 

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