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  2. Royal Hong Kong Regiment - Wikipedia

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    In 1949, The Hong Kong Regiment were reorganised and became part of the Hong Kong Defence Force, which also included separate air and naval units. In 1951 the new combined defence force was granted the title 'Royal', and replacement colours were entrusted to the care of the regiment as successor to the defunct Defence Corps.

  3. British Forces Overseas Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    British Forces Overseas Hong Kong comprised the elements of the British Army, Royal Navy (including Royal Marines) and Royal Air Force stationed in British Hong Kong.The Governor of Hong Kong also assumed the position of the commander-in-chief of the forces and the Commander British Forces in Hong Kong took charge of the daily deployment of the troops.

  4. Hong Kong Defence Force - Wikipedia

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    Hong Kong Defence Force may refer to: Hong Kong Defence Force (Imperial Japanese Army), the Japanese garrison between 1942 and 1945; British Forces Overseas Hong Kong

  5. British Hong Kong Garrison - Wikipedia

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    The Hong Kong Garrison was a British and Commonwealth force that protected Hong Kong. In December 1941 during the Battle of Hong Kong in the Second World War, the Japanese Army attacked Hong Kong and after a brief but violent series of engagements the garrison surrendered. The garrison continued until 1989.

  6. Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence

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    The Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence is a public museum in Hong Kong, located in a former coastal defence fort overlooking the Lei Yue Mun channel, near Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island. The fort was built by the British in 1887, intended to defend the eastern approaches to Victoria Harbour. [1]

  7. Battle of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor , forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong around the same time that Japan ...

  8. Hong Kong Volunteer Company - Wikipedia

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    Hong Kong Volunteer Company (Chinese: 香港志願連) was a company of British-Chinese soldiers that escaped Japanese occupied Hong Kong, and served with the British in India and Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II. [1]

  9. Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Hong Kong hosts several high tech and innovation companies, [228] including several multinational companies. [229] [230] Hong Kong is the ninth largest trading entity in exports and eighth largest in imports (2021), [231] [232] trading more goods in value than its gross domestic product.