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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 ...
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.
The Royal Marines and Hong Kong: Over 150 Years from 1840 to 1997. Portsmouth: Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication Number 19, 1997. Oxley, D.H. Victoria Barracks, 1842–1979. Hong Kong: British Forces Hong Kong, 1979. Parkinson, Jonathan. The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864 - 1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders ...
Hong Kong Chinese Regiment (either Major H. W. A. Mayer or Major. Rodney W. Mayer) Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps [6] (Col. Henry B. Rose) Infantry companies No. 1–7 Artillery batteries 1st–5th Field Company Engineers Signals Armoured Car Platoon Army Service Corps Company Dispatch Sections Hughes Group Field Ambulance unit (Lt. Col ...
The agents' main role was to facilitate the escape of prisoners from Hong Kong; British, Commonwealth and Indian servicemen were then debriefed by B.A.A.G. staff and many subsequently rejoined the war effort. Many escaped Hong Kong Chinese joined the Hong Kong Volunteer Company, a unit formed by Ride which went on to fight in the Burma Campaign ...
Osborn was a British-born Canadian who died defending Hong Kong in 1941. He was awarded the Victoria Cross [2] and a barracks in Hong Kong was named in his honour in 1945 after the liberation. Osborn is memorialised at Sai Wan War Cemetery [3] and also through a statue of an anonymous World War I soldier in Hong Kong Park on Hong Kong Island. [4]
[6] [56] [57] Hong Kong was handed over by the Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on 30 August 1945; British control over Hong Kong was thus restored. 30 August was declared as "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and was a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1997.
The history of Hong Kong ethnic Chinese soldiers serving in the British Army can be traced back to the 1880s when Hong Kong locals were employed by the Royal Engineers in the building of barracks and defence works. [3] Many ethnic Chinese from Hong Kong fought alongside the British troops in the defence of Hong Kong in World War II.