Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860–1997 by Chi Man Kwong

Author:Chi Man Kwong [Kwong, Chi Man]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860–1997. Kwong Chi Man, Oxford University Press. © Kwong Chi Man 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192845740.003.0006

1 ‘Lindsay Ride’s Speech during the Funeral of Lee Yiu Piu’, Elizabeth Ride Collection.

2 ‘Prisoner of War Diary of Chief Signal Officer, China Command, Hong Kong, 1941–1945’, 940 547,252 PRI.

3 Vivienne Poy, Chen Xiaofang (trans.), Building Bridges: The Life & Times of Richard Charles Lee, Hong Kong, 1905–1983 (Scarborough, ON: Calyan Publishing, 1998), pp. 33–4, 42–3.

4 ‘Chan Kim-hung’, ‘Chan Kam-tong’, in ‘Royal Artillery’, EMR-1D-08, HKHP.

5 Shamus Wade, ‘The Hong Kong Volunteer Company: Lasting Honour 1941, Lasting Dishonour, 1984?’, 1984, PRO-REF-044, HKPRO, p. 1.

6 Oral History of David Lam, 14/3/2001, IWM 21135.

7 ‘Report of Private Wong Yin Khoon’, 30/12/1942, The Hong Kong Volunteers at War, unpublished manuscript, EMR 6/EMR-2B-02, HKHP, unpaginated.

8 Maximo Cheng interview, 26/4/2001, IWM, 21133.

9 ‘Huaji yingbing dao wangyou (Chinese Servicemen of the British Armed Forces Mourn Their Dead Friends)’, Wenweipao, 15/8/2005, p. A05.

10 Oral History of David Lam, 14/3/2001, IWM 21135.

11 Maximo Cheng interview, 26/4/2001, IWM, 21133; Oral History Record of Raymond Mok, 26/4/2001, IWM, 21134; Oral History of David Lam, 14/3/2001, IWM 21135.

12 ‘Wong Sau’, in ‘Royal Engineers’, EMR-1D-07, HKHP.

13 Ibid.

14 ‘Fan Yuk-lun’, in ‘Royal Artillery’, EMR-1D-08, HKHP.

15 ‘Lee Shui-kee’, in ‘Royal Engineers’, EMR-1D-07, HKHP.

16 ‘Lam Cho-bun’, in ‘Royal Artillery’, EMR-1D-08, HKHP.

17 ‘Fung Yau-leung’, in ‘Royal Engineers’, EMR-1D-07, HKHP.

18 ‘Ho Ying’, in ‘Royal Artillery’, EMR-1D-08, HKHP.

19 ‘Lai Yiu-ming’, in ‘Royal Engineers’, EMR-1D-07, HKHP; interview with Daniel Chan on 26/5/2019.

20 ‘Untitled Document (a report submitted by Governor Rensuke Isogai to the Japanese government, 1944)’, Hong Kong Museum of History, donated by K.L. Leung, p. 84.

21 ‘Xianggang lunxian de rizi (The Days When Hong Kong Fell)’, 31/12/2007, Takungpao, p. C04.

22 ‘Wong Sau’, in ‘Royal Engineers’, EMR-1D-07, HKHP.

23 Interview with Ng Sai-ming, Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen Association.

24 ‘Despair defender of Hongkong’, SCMP, 15/7/1990, p. 2.

25 ‘Interview of Peter Choi’, Zhongguo yuanzhengjun, pp. 265–70.

26 ‘MACHIN to TROOPERS’, 16/12/1942, AWM PR82/068/11/32, Australian War Memorial.

27 ‘List of Chinese who reported to the British Army Aid Group from Hong Kong’, EMR-1D-03, HKHP.

28 Ride, pp. 328–9.

29 ‘Local Men Avenge 1941’, SCMP, 6/1/1946, p. 7.

30 In the process I was greatly assisted by Lt.-Col. Nigel Collett of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal British Legion.

31 This table is compiled based on data collected from the records of the BAAG deposited in Hong Kong Heritage Project, POW records of TNA UK, and post-war reports of the South China Morning Post, including ‘List of Chinese who reported to the BAAG in Hong Kong’, EMR-1D-03, HKHP; ‘Hong Kong Chinese Regiment’, EMR-1D-05, HKHP; ‘Late Comers’, EMR-1D-06; ‘Royal Engineers’, EMR-1D-07, HKHP; ‘Royal Artillery’, EMR-1D-08, HKHP; ‘D.C.R.E.’, EMR-1D-09, HKHP; ‘War Office: Japanese Index Cards of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, Second World War’, WO 345, TNA; ‘Far East: Argyle Street Prisoner of War Camp N’, Hong Kong; lists of dead’, WO 361/1118, TNA.

32 Lawrence Lai Wai-chung, ‘Recollections of the Battle of Hong Kong and the Life of a POW by Arthur Ernesto Gomes’, p. 28.

33 Ibid., p. 34.

34 ‘Awaiting the Last Post’, SCMP, 29/8/1982, p.

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