Photograph captioned 'S.M.S. Bussard, Nanking, 1900'
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Title:
Photograph captioned 'S.M.S. Bussard, Nanking, 1900'
Series Title:
Papers of Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland
Alternate Title:
S.M.S. Bussard, Nanking, 1900
Donor:
Nation-Dixon, M. L., Mrs.
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1 item

Notes

General Note:
SMS Bussard was a cruiser of the Imperial German Navy, built in the 1880s. The Bussard was sent to China in response to the Boxer Rebellion earlier that year. While en route to China on 6 August 1900, a boiler room exploded aboard Bussard, due to a blown out manhole gasket; the explosion killed three sailors and seriously wounded another three men. After arriving in China, Bussard took part in the attack on the Taku Forts, along with her sisters Seeadler and Geier. Her crew suffered no casualties during the campaign.
General Note:
Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland was born in Exeter, Devon on December 18th 1874. He was educated at St Paul's School London and at Pembroke College, Oxford. After graduating in 1897 he joined the Chinese Maritime Customs Service in May 1898 and was posted to Kiungchang. He then went on to serve at Nanking, Tientsin, Lappa, Kowloon, Swatow and Nanning, of which latter port he was in charge for six years. He became Deputy Commissioner in 1917 and in April 1921 he was appointed Commissioner. On returning from leave in 1923 he was given charge of Aigun on the Amur river in Manchuria. He was subsequently in charge of Swatow and Canton, and retired in April 1930 while Commissioner at Hankow. He had a fluent command of Chinese, both of Mandarin and Cantonese and held the Order of the Chia Ho, 4th and 3rd Class, and 3rd Class with Brilliants; the 3rd Class of the Order of Wên Hu; and the Ordre Royal des Millions d'Élephants et du Parasol Blanc de Luang Prabang, France.
General Note:
GeoNames.org [name authority] : Nanjing : URI http://www.geonames.org/1799962
General Note:
Nanjing was previously Romanised as Nanking and Nankin
General Note:
Jiangsu was previously Romanised as Kiangsu
General Note:
To order this photograph from physical storage, please reference: "PP MS 82 Box 3" and "PP MS 82/2/1/096"
General Note:
Donated by Mrs Nation Dixon in 2002; 2013

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Rights Management:
All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 82/2/1/096 ( SOAS Archives reference number )
He01-096 ( Historical Photographs of China identifier )