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Music during the parade will be provided by the Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers, visiting Hong Kong from their headquarters in Chatham, in the UK, and the Pipes and Drums of 1st Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
67 Squadron first served in Hong Kong between 1962 and 1966, returning to the Territory from Malaysia in 1970.
As the only remaining engineer unit with the British Forces in Hong Kong, it has provided engineering support, from its base at Malaya Lines, for the Garrison since the diabandment of the Queen's Gurkha Engineer Regiment in 1994.
Over the years Gurkha engineers have assisted with a variety of community relations projects, the most recent being the construction and refurbishment of accommodation units on Town Island for Operation Dawn, a drug rehabilitation centre. Abroad, the Sappers have twice returned to their homeland of Nepal in 1994 and earlier this year to assist with a major road building project in the Everest region.
Of the men on parade tomorrow, half of them will remain in the British Army and are set to return to the UK to join 69 Gurkha Squadron with 36 Engineer Regiment in Maidstone.
Of the remainder, three will transfer to the Royal Gurkha Rifles while 62 men will leave the Squadron. Some of them have applied to join the Gurkha Reserve Unit in Brunei, some will take up jobs in Hong Kong and the rest will return to Nepal to set up their own business.
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Tuen Mun Road speed limit returns to 70 km/h
The Transport Department today (Thursday) announces that with effect from 10 am tomorrow, the speed limit on Tuen Mun Road will return to 70 kilometres per hour (km/h) all the way from Tsuen Wan to Tuen Mun.
Following the opening of the climbing lane of the Kowloon-bound carriageway of Tuen Mun Road at Ting Kau West, the speed limit of 50 km/h implemented there has been reviewed.
A decision has been made to change it to 70 km/h to help keep vehicle speed uniform for the whole stretch of the road.
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