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Other officiating guests at the concert included Tai Po District Board Chairman, Mr Cheung Hok-ming; the Executive Director of OSHC, Mr Yip Yuk-lun; and the Deputy Head of Radio 1, Mr. Eric Ng.
The pop concert is jointly organised by OSHC, TPDB and the District Office and sponsored by Nestle Daily Farm Limited and Wellcome Company Limited.
End/Saturday, November 25, 1995
Gurkha parade marks New Zealand alliance
To mark the long-standing alliance between the Brigade of Gurkhas and the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (RNZIR) soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles (IRGR) will be on parade with their New Zealand counterparts at Malaya Lines at 11.30 am on Monday (November 27).
Principal Inspecting Officer will be the Honorary Colonel of IRNZIR, Colonel David Mooney, who will be accompanied by the Commanding Officer of IRGR, Lieutenant Colonel Nick Hinton, representing the Colonel Commandant Brigade of Gurkhas. Also present will be the Commanding Officer of 1RNZIR, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Abbott.
1995 marks the 80th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign in which 6 and 10 Gurkha Rifles and 1 RNZIR took part, landing together at ANZAC Cove and attacking Sari Bair. Although the Gallipoli Landings ultimately ended in failure, the courage, in adversity, of both Gurkha and New Zealand soldiers formed the beginning of a future alliance.
During the Second World War, Gurkhas once again fought alongside New Zealand soldiers in the battle for Italy. In post-war years battalions of 2, 6, 7 and 10 Gurkha Rifles and RNZIR worked closely together in both the Malayan Emergency and Concentration in Borneo.
In later times companies from Gurkha battalions in Hong Kong have stayed and exercised with RNZIR in New Zealand and they, in turn, have sent companies back for training in the Territory.
End/Saturday, November 25, 1995
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