Shanghai Mixed Foursomes Golf Champions, 1940 & 1941

Belated congratulations to Miss M Ballingall and Mr RM Ballingall for winning the 1940 Mixed Foursomes and Mrs C McLean and and Mr JC Dickson for winning the trophy the following year, 1941 – obviously there was not to be a 1942 competition!

The Balingall’s, a family with English and Indian (colonial tea planter) roots, lived in Shanghai and were interned by the Japanese as civilian internees between 1943 and 1945 during the Second World War. They were repatriated to England in October 1945. Not sure about the Maclean’s – there were both merchants and missionaries around with that surname. JC Dickson seems to have been around in Shanghai since at least the late 1880s with the Municipal Police.