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Highlights of the two-day programme will be action displays in the basin of HMS Tamar. In addition, a full shore programme will include arena demonstrations by motor-cycle and dog display teams together with traditional dragon and lion dances as well as music staged by the Pipes and Drums of 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles.
The open day is being staged firstly to raise money for the Locally Enlisted Personnel Trust, the charity set up by the British Forces to provide funds for Hong Kong Chinese ex-members of the British Garrison who may find themselves in need or distress after 1997, and secondly to allow members of the public access to the military and to show them some of its work.
Also open to the public during the open day will be a large number of souvenir shops, games stalls and military displays, some of which will provide opportunities to examine and handle selected items of military equipment.
Admission to Stonecutters Island will be by tickets, which are on sale at Star Ferry Concourses in Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, and Mass Transit Railway stations at Central, Tai Koo, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mongkok, Kowloon Tong, Kwun Tong and Tsuen
Wan.
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1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles exercise in NT
Members of the public are advised that the 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR) will be taking part in a field training exercise throughout the New Territories from 6 am on January 29 (Monday) to 6 pm on February 7 (Wednesday).
About 80 troops will be involved in the exercise and they will be using blank ammunition and pyrotechnics.
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