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The new aerogramme will be sold concurrently with the existing pictorial aerogramme which was released in 1992.

A hand-back service will be provided on September 2 at all post offices for new aerogrammes bearing a local address. Aerogrammes tendered for the hand-back service must be folded and sealed.

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Last Liberation Parade for British Forces

For the last time before departure from the territory next year, the British Forces will commemorate one of the most significant events in Hong Kong's history - the liberation from Japanese forces at the end of the Second World War.

Men from the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force will form up at the Cenotaph, in Central, alongside Hong Kong veterans during this year's Liberation Parade on Monday (August 26).

A detachment of 53 men from the 1st Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR) will be on parade along with four Cenotaph sentries from HMS Tamar and a four-man firing party from RAF Sek Kong.

Music is to be provided by the Pipes and Drums of 1 RGR and by the Band of the Corps of the Royal Engineers who are based in the United Kingdom and currently enjoying a short tour of the territory.

Commander British Forces, Major General Bryan Dutton, along with Inspector Hong Kong Military Service Corps (HKMSC), Lieutenant Colonel Nick Southward, will lay wreaths during the parade.

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