In a feature article on my work written by Fiona Holland and published in the Sunday Morning Post on February 22 ('The willing captive of colonial history'), she stated that I wrote a thesis on the British Army Aid Group (BAAG) while studying at the University of Hong Kong.
I did not do this at all, but wrote a dissertation on the 1940 evacuation of civilians from Hong Kong.
Ms Holland also referred to my intention to write in more depth about the Hong Kong Portuguese community and mentioned in this connection a biography of Leo D' Almada e Castro, who she stated was 'now 92'.
This is not the case. Mr D' Almada passed away in September 1996.
The article stated that Lady May Ride passed to me 'her husband's unfinished manuscripts on the old Protestant cemetery in Macau'.
In fact the papers given to me by Lady May and on which I am working now are about the Portuguese stones, statues and memorials found in Macau, and are nothing whatsoever to do with the old Protestant cemetery.
