WONG PONG (duplicate entry)

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Biographical informationDuplicate entry [SEE WONG BONG]

Wong Pong is certainly the same person as Wong Bong. He has the same small scar between eye brows and the handprints are the same. He was given two entries by Anne Atkinson because, confusingly, he gave a different birthdate (1887) on his first set of CEDT paperwork in 1908. All four other CEDT files give his birthdate as 1875 and so we have used this date, but a birthdate of 1887 remains a possibility.

Original entry: "Cook at Broome before travelling overseas from December 1908 to June 1910 (E)".Other nameWong Pong (differentiated name)Wong Bong

Person

WONG BONG

Photograph of Wong Pong (aka Wong Bong) in 1908 from his CEDT paperwork (source: NAA: K1145, 1908/72)

Connections

Subject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated itemWONG BONG

Item information

ContributorSchool of Social SciencesSource of informationAsian immigrants to Western Australia, 1829-1901 (Atkinson, 1988)

UWA Collected

WONG PONG (duplicate entry)

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA