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Brigade were re-trained to its former efficiency, it is submitted that

st valuable asset as a mobile

> to meet emergencies in imperial

Division is being withdrawn from

in Palestine for exactly parallel

gade, consisting of only three ry inferior in strength to an

If it is uvontually decided that c is required in Hong Kong, then gado could not be regarded as a iuto.

Chief of Staff to S. A. C. S. E. A.,

at a recent informal moeting, that

bus of retining the Commando Brigado but that they would then be ablo sing it. I therefore suggest that rmed, and that 3 Commando Brigado drawn at the end of that period.

ado is to be part of our post-war at it should be moved to a location

The ideal nised and re-trained.

ted Kingdom, where its reforming ied out.

in six months of its arrival in

will be ready for a furthor period Ossibly in the Middle East, whore

vido amphibious training for it in Cyprus.

id that:-

fs of Staff should agree to

io 3rigade being retained in

- until 31st May, 1947.

should be given for the Brigade

n to the Unitod ingdom for

a and ro-training in its Commando

soon after the 31st May, 1947, as icable.

(Signed) R.E. LAYCOCK

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ANNEX

EMPLOYMENT OF 3 COMMANDO BRIGADE

IN HONG KONG

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Personnel of the Brigade are at present employed on dispersed duties with heavy guard commitments which give little opportunity for any form of training. any case, few facilities exist in Hony ong and there are no schools available here officers, N. C. O. and specialists can undergo courses.

2. By April, 1947, Commandos will have complcted 18 months in Hong Kong where they have neither been cmployed nor trained in a Comando role.

3. Since November, 1945, no less than 2,100 replacements (90% of the War establishment) have joined the Brigade. The se replacements are little more than raw recruits who have had little or no unit training.

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