When Henry Charles Tong was born on 28 October 1896, in Napier Electorate, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, his father, Frank Charles Tong, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Culshaw Tong, was 26. He married Muriel Florence Wotherspoon in 1920, in Napier, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 13 January 1967, in Taradale, Napier, New Zealand, at the age of 70, and was buried in Taradale Cemetery, Taradale, Napier, New Zealand.
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