278

1914

Gun Club.

Hong Kong - Singapore Bttn. RGA at Gun Club with D & E Coys quartered at Whitefield Bks. Four 10 pdr BL mountain guns at Gun Club,

1914-18 First World War. Armed Forces in Hong Kong mobilised.

1920s

c.1925

1935

Hong Kong - Singapore Artillery still at Gun Club where these Indian troops trained their mule handlers. Gun Club still unfenced at this time.

St. Mary's Canossian College built in Austin Road opposite Gun Club.

Officers' Mess addition built.

1942-45 Japanese Occupation. Equipment abandoned on withdrawal to Hong Kong island. Japanese artillery silenced by British guns on the island.

1947

25 Field Regt. RA at Gun Club.

1949

58 Medium Regt. RA at Gun Club.

1957

32 Medium Regt. RA at Gun Club.

1960-61 Remodelling of some buildings by Leigh & Orange.

1961

34 Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, at Gun Club.

1963

1967

1969

34 LAA Regt. leave Gun Club. Replaced by infantry battalion.

1st Bttn. Lancashire Fusiliers at Gun Club.

4th Bttn. The Regt. of Fusiliers at Gun Club.

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