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CHAPTER II.
ORGANIZATION.
(A)-Divisions of Command and Staff.
1. Fortress Commander and Staff:-
Headquarters Staff-
G.O.C.
A.D.C.
Major-General Staff
D.A.A. and Q.M.G.
C.E.
O.C. R.A...
O.C. A.S.C.
P.M.O.
District Paymaster
C.0.0.
Brigade Signalling Officer Censor
•
Officers.
Location.
Headquarters Office.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Station Hospital. Headquarters Office. Ordnance Office. Sanitarium. Cable Offices.
CHAPTER II (A).
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* Inspector of Schools, Colonial Civil Service.
2. The fortress is divided for defence purposes into four Sections as follows:--
Section.
Area.
Commander.
Headquarters.
No. 1 (Western)..
Stonecutters Island Upper Belcher
O.C. R.G.A. Co.
Belcher.
Lower Belcher
Fly Point
Victoria Battery
Pinewood Battery
Mount Davis
No. II (Central)..
Centre of island from High West, O.C. Indian Infy. Bn.
inclusive, to Tytam Reservoir,
Sanitarium.
inclusive
No. III (Eastern)
East of island from western slopes | O.C. R.G.A. Co.
of Mount Parker, inclusive, and
Lyemun.
Devil's Peak Battery in new territory
No. IV (Northern)
Kowloon Peninsula and north to O.C. Indian Infy. Bn.
the line of passes
Reserve
Victoria General Defence
O.C. British Infy. Bn.
Victoria.
3. Under the strategic conditions indicated in Chapter I, paragraph 9, the sectional organization will only be adopted in Hong Kong at the war stage, and not at the precautionary stage of the Defence Scheme.
In the precautionary stage certain ostensibly "practice exercises," the details of which are given in Chapter III, will be ordered by the G.O.C., the resulting distribution of troops being shown in Table B (i), while Table B (ii) shows the distribution of the garrison and armament when the sectional organization is in full operation at the war stage.
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