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A Quarter for the Brigade Commander
2 Blocks of Officer's Quarters
1 Block of 2 Warrant Officer's Quarters
1 Block of 12 Warrant Officer's Quarters
1 Block of 12 Married Soldier's Quarters
The work took about a year to complete and in 1937 a further building programme was initiated to provide additional accommodation, messes and a church. At the same time artillery defences were also being built.
The Artillery Defences
Design of fortifications was the responsibility of the Directorate of Fortifications and Works at the War Office. This department prepared the drawings of fortifications and issued them to the various army commands, which in turn issued them to their contractors. The Commander Royal Engineers at the various commands modified the designs to suit local requirements and local materials. The designs took the weapon to be used and protection from enemy fire as the main considerations, but standardisation was also introduced as far as possible to assist in construction. The siting, positioning, and grouping of structures were also obvious major considerations in the building of defensive works, batteries, and other types of fortifications.
Modernisation and reorganisation of the defences in Hong Kong in the 1930s was also governed by the Washington Treaty, an agreement signed in 1921 by nations with interests in the Pacific Region. Article 19 of the Treaty proscribed any increase or major improvements in heavy weapons and any improvements in coast defences other than those already planned and agreed to by the signatories to the Treaty. Gun emplacements were not regarded as fortifications but any disused emplacements were to be destroyed when new ones were erected.
248
A Quarter for the Brigade Commander
2 Blocks of Officer's Quarters
1 Block of 2 Warrant Officer's Quarters
1 Block of 12 Warrant Officer's Quarters
1 Block of 12 Married Soldier's Quarters
The work took about a year to complete and in 1937 a further building programme was initiated to provide additional accommodation, messes and a church. At the same time artillery defences were also being built.
The Artillery Defences
Design of fortifications was the responsibility of the Directorate of Fortifications and Works at the War Office. This department pre- pared the drawings of fortifications and issued them to the various army commands, which in turn issued them to their contractors. The Com- mander Royal Engineers at the various commands modified the de- signs to suit local requirements and local materials. The designs took the weapon to be used and protection from enemy fire as the main considerations, but standardisation was also introduced as far as pos- sible to assist in construction. The siting, positioning, and grouping of structures were also obvious major considerations in the building of defensive works, batteries, and other types of fortifications.
Modernisation and reorganisation of the defences in Hong Kong in the 1930s was also governed by the Washington Treaty, an agree- ment signed in 1921 by nations with interests in the Pacific Region. Article 19 of the Treaty proscribed any increase or major improve- ments in heavy weapons and any improvements in coast defences other than those already planned and agreed to by the signatories to the Treaty. Gun emplacements were not regarded as fortifications but any disused emplacements were to be destroyed when new ones were erected.
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