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Royal Societies Club, St James Street, SW1 Postal Commissioner, Harbin, N. China [1921] c/o Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, 9 Gracechurch Street, EC3 [1925] | ||||||
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1920.10.26 proposed by E.N. Fallaize, seconded by R.R. Williamson
Notes From Elsewhere
District Post Master.
William Walter Ritchie, a British subject born in Northern Ireland, went to China in 1901 and started working in April the same year at Zhenjiang custom. He later served as postal commissioner at Ji'nan, Chengdu, Harbin and Guangzhou. He evacuated Najing before its fall, and came back in mid-February 1938 to resume postal service. After working in China for 37 years, he left Shanghai for Great Britain in 1938 [A dark page in history: the Nanjing massacre ... by Suping Lu]
