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A couple were presented by colleagues with a silver rose bowl and a coffee set.
Intending to recuperate in England, Jackman and his wife left Hong Kong on July 21, 1928, aboard the s.s. Rawalpindi. However, he contracted pneumonia soon after the ship sailed from Bombay and died at sea on August 4. His wife probably did not return to Hong Kong (although her name and address appear in directories for the Peak up until 1929).
SOURCES
Hong Kong Blue Book, 1903-1928
China Mail, August 10, 1928
South China Morning Post, August 11, 1928
Hong Kong Daily Press, 1 January 1928
Hong Kong Telegraph, 28 October 1910
Rev. Carl Smith's card index
Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, etc. (Lloyd's Publishing House, 1908)
Directory & Chronicle of China, Japan, etc., 1914-1930
Who's Who in the Far East (pub. China Mail), 1906-07
Henry Thomas Jackman, born 4 June 1874, Civil Service Record:
Date | Events | Absences | Salary
20.10.1902 | Appointed to Colonial Service (CSO4408 of 1903) | |
1903 | Executive Engineer, PWD | | HK$3,000 p.a.
1904 | | |
1905 | | |
| Appointed 5 June 1903 Took up duty 15 July 1903. Acting Sanitary Surveyor | 3 Apr.-23 Nov. | £480.0.0
| | | £480.0.0