Hong Kong (1800s–1930s) oversaw the founding of the new crown colony of Hong Kong under the British Empire. After the First Opium War,the territory was ceded by the Qing Empire to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland through Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and Convention of Peking (1860) in perpetuity. Together with additional land that was leased to the British under the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory (1898),Hong Kong became one of the first parts of East Asia to undergo industrialisation.
The Battle of Hong Kong,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 declared war on Great Britain. The Hong Kong garrison consisted of British,Indian and Canadian units,also the Auxiliary Defence Units and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC).
British Forces Overseas Hong Kong comprised the elements of the British Army,Royal Navy 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. Much of the British military left prior to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. The present article focuses mainly on the British garrison in Hong Kong in the post Second World War era. For more information concerning the British garrison during the Second World War and earlier,see the Battle of Hong Kong.
South Asians are part of the Hong Kong society. As of the 2021 by-census,there were at least 101,969 persons of South Asian descent in Hong Kong. Many trace their roots in Hong Kong as far back as when the Indian subcontinent was still under British colonial rule and as a legacy of the British Empire,their nationality issues remain largely unsettled. However,recently an increasing number of them have acquired Chinese nationality.
Sir Robert Ho Tung Bosman,,also known as Sir Robert Ho Tung,was a businessman and philanthropist in British Hong Kong. Known as "the grand old man of Hong Kong",he was knighted in 1915 and 1955 (KBE).
Gascoigne Road is a main road in Kowloon,Hong Kong,going west-east from Nathan Road to Chatham Road South through the head of King's Park,leading vehicles from West Kowloon to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel.
Stanley Military Cemetery is a cemetery located near St. Stephen's Beach in Stanley,Hong Kong. Along with the larger Hong Kong Cemetery,it is one of two military cemeteries of the early colonial era,used for the burials of the members of the garrison and their families between 1841 and 1866. There were no further burials here until World War II (1939–1945).
The Old Protestant Cemetery is a cemetery in Santo António,Macau,China. It was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Portuguese Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony.
Sai Wan War Cemetery is a military cemetery located in Chai Wan,Hong Kong which was built in 1946. The cemetery was created to commemorate soldiers of Hong Kong Garrison who perished during the Second World War. The cemetery also contains 12 World War I burials. A total of 1,528 soldiers,mainly from the Commonwealth,are commemorated here. Most of the remaining burials are located at the Stanley Military Cemetery.
Stanley Fort is a military installation on the south side of Hong Kong Island. Built originally to serve the British Armed Forces,it now houses the Hong Kong garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ground Force. It has also been used as Kai Chi Children's Centre and the Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre.
The Cenotaph is a war memorial constructed in 1923 and located between Statue Square and the City Hall in Central,Hong Kong,that commemorates the dead in the two world wars who served in Hong Kong in the Royal Navy,British Army and Royal Air Force. Built in stone,it is an almost exact replica of the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London,UK. It is listed as a monument under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance.
Shorncliffe Army Camp is a British Army installation near Cheriton in Kent,established in 1794. The camp,described as "the birthplace of the modern British Army",previously consisted of Ross Barracks,Burgoyne Barracks,Somerset Barracks,Napier Barracks,Risborough Barracks and Sir John Moore Barracks,however,due to closures,the latter is all that remains in military use.
Gresson Street is a street in the Wan Chai area of Hong Kong Island,Hong Kong. It connects Queen's Road East (south) to Johnston Road (north).
Hong Kong was a British colony and later a British Dependent Territory from 1841 to 1997,apart from a period of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island in 1841,during the First Opium War between the British and the Qing dynasty. The Qing had wanted to enforce its prohibition of opium importation within the dynasty that was being exported mostly from British India and was causing widespread addiction among the populace.
Shelley Street is a street in Central,Hong Kong. It is a ladder street and the Central–Mid-Levels escalators run along the entire length of the street.
Terendak Camp is a Malaysian Army military base located in Sungai Udang,Central Melaka District,Melaka,Malaysia. It belonged to the Commonwealth of Nations before being handed over to the Malaysian Armed Forces in 1970. It is right next to the Sungai Udang Camp.
Chiu Yuen Cemetery is a private cemetery located on Mount Davis,on Hong Kong Island,Hong Kong.
British Garrison Cemetery is a British cemetery in Kandy,Sri Lanka,for British nationals who died in Ceylon. It was established in 1817 just after British captured the Kandy and closed in 1873 due to a ban on burials within the municipal limits,although special provision was given to allow the burial of relatives of those interred in the cemetery,with last person buried there being Annie Fritz in 1951. The cemetery contains 195 graves of men,women and children. The most common causes of death were tropical diseases such as malaria and cholera.
The British colony of Hong Kong saw no military action during World War I (1914–1918). The biggest external threat to the colony was perceived to be the German East Asia Squadron,but the squadron was eliminated in December 1914. Nonetheless,the colony served as an important port in East Asia,including as the headquarters of the British China Station,and saw significant socioeconomical changes during the war.
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