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112569PD: Tombstone for Chinese man Ho Ching Yeun (1860-1927), Broome Cemetery, 1935

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Title
112569PD: Tombstone for Chinese man Ho Ching Yeun (1860-1927), Broome Cemetery, 1935
Subject
Chinese language
Western Australia
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Death
Category
4. World War II
Place
Broome
Keywords
Chinese Australian
Current holder
State Library of Western Australia
State Library of New South Wales
Date
April 19, 1927
Link
https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b3388395_1
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/4alNab0pK6yJk
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6OVJVY/4alNab0pK6yJk
Series number
PXA 907/Box 83
Item number
4alNab0pK6yJk
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
The State Library of Western Australia

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Country of origin
Australia
Language
Chinese
Description from source
From the State Library of Western Australia -

112569PD: Tombstone for Chinese man Ho Ching Yeun (1860-1927), Broome Cemetery, 1935

Translation of text on tombstone: Top line: Cantonese: Gwong Dung San Wui Yun, English: Guangdong (province), Xinhui (Sanwui) county. Middle column: Cantonese: Ching Yeun Ho ? Mou, English: Grave of the honourable Ho Ching Yeun (He Qingrun). Right column: Cantonese: Sang yu Haam Fung gau nin seui chi Gang San, English: Born in the ninth year of the Xianfeng reign, a Geng Shen year (i.e. 1860). Left Column: Cantonese: Jung yu Man Gwok sap luk nin saam yut sap baat yat, English: Died on the eighteenth day of the third month of the sixteenth year of the Republic (i.e. 19th April 1927)]. Translation supplied by the Golden Dragon Museum (Bendigo)

From the State Library of New South Wales -
Full title
File 06: Walkabout magazine : Western Australian photographs [historical, pearling, diamonds, scenic views]

Source
Presented 1979
Physical format
Photographs