Hellmut Horace Hendon

Hellmut Horace Hendon: German - arrived Adelaide per OTRANTO, 16 Mar 1937 as a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany under his birth name, Heinz Helmuth Hönig
Changed his name by Deed Poll on 16/11/1937
HENDON HELLMUT HORACE : Service Number - N463175 : Date of birth - 15 Dec 1909 : Place of birth - BERLIN GERMANY : Place of enlistment - PADDINGTON NSW : Next of Kin - Wolfgang Wagner

Was living in Spain during the Spanish civil war

Worked in Radio, was a watch importer, and ran a restaurant after the war, later moving to Fiji and opening a tourist resort.

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-339613686/view?sectionId=nla.obj-3564119...

Pacific islands monthly : Vol. 54, No. 1 ( Jan. 1, 1983) DEATHS of Islands People Page 65

Helmut Horace Hendon

Died In   Suva  (Fiji)  on   October   26,   1982 aged  63  

Mr Hendon was the proprietor of the Fisherman’s Lodge near Suva. He came to Fiji in the late 1960s and was responsible for reclaiming much of the land on which Fisherman’s Lodge stands. He designed and built most of the lodge himself.
The Fisherman’s Lodge was bought by the Fijian Government and is now a Navy Base

Fiji, Vital Records, 1900-1989", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:D8Q4-1BPZ : 22 October 2020), Helmut Horace Hendon, 1982.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GM5B-CTS