RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1998 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/1g05n0794 269 are formed in stepped voussoirs. The first floor verandah is divided into bays by rusticated granite pillars which support the entablature and parapet wall to the roof. Ground and first floor verandah balustrades consist of heavy moulded copings on pierced and mortised infill panels with heavy plinths supported on moulded horizontal cornices emphasizing the storey heights. Flights of entrance steps lead up to the ground floor verandahs on both sides. The 1935 addition comprising the front entrance, dining room, and anteroom is built in similar style but is three storeys in height due to the sloping ground. There is a five-centred elliptical arch and a panel with the Royal coat of arms over the main entrance. On the parapet wall above there is a plaque engraved '1935.' Internally there are several interesting fireplace surrounds and period joinery but little else of architectural interest. Evidence in the P.R.O. indicates that the present infill panels to the verandahs may not be original and that the roof originally was pitched with gable ends and had several large chimney stacks projecting above the ridge. Part of the original roof still remains. The Officers' Mess is a Grade 2 historical building. The last British Army Units at the barracks were 28 Squadron, the Gurkha Transport Regiment, also 247 Gurkha Signal Squadron. The United Services Recreation Club occupied part of the site, and 10 Intelligence and Security Company occupied the old Colony Club building, having moved in on the handover of their former site, Number 3 Camp, Argyle Street, to the Hong Kong Government in 1977. Prior to occupation by the Gurkhas, the barracks were usually occupied by British infantry battalions. In recent years occupying British units have included the First Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (1967), First Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (1969/71), First Battalion The Black Watch (1971/73), and the First Battalion The Royal Hampshire Regiment (1974/76). The 25th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, is also recorded at Gun Club in 1948. Some of the earliest troops to be stationed in Kowloon were the 99th Regiment (now the Second Wiltshires) and the Second Royal Welch Fusiliers, some of whom were quartered at Gun Club upon their arrival on January 13, 1899. Other Kowloon based units included the 91st Argylls (1888), First Battalion The King's Shropshire Light Infantry (1892) and the First Battalion the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1998 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/1g05n0794 278 1914 Gun Club. Hong Kong - Singapore Bttn. RGA at Gun Club with D & E Coys quartered at Whitefield Bks. Four 10 pdr BL mountain guns at Gun Club, 1914-18 First World War. Armed Forces in Hong Kong mobilised. 1920s c.1925 1935 Hong Kong - Singapore Artillery still at Gun Club where these Indian troops trained their mule handlers. Gun Club still unfenced at this time. St. Mary's Canossian College built in Austin Road opposite Gun Club. Officers' Mess addition built. 1942-45 Japanese Occupation. Equipment abandoned on withdrawal to Hong Kong island. Japanese artillery silenced by British guns on the island. 1947 25 Field Regt. RA at Gun Club. 1949 58 Medium Regt. RA at Gun Club. 1957 32 Medium Regt. RA at Gun Club. 1960-61 Remodelling of some buildings by Leigh & Orange. 1961 34 Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, at Gun Club. 1963 1967 1969 34 LAA Regt. leave Gun Club. Replaced by infantry battalion. 1st Bttn. Lancashire Fusiliers at Gun Club. 4th Bttn. The Regt. of Fusiliers at Gun Club. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 85 Appendix C [2] Plymouth [Efford] Cemetery, Devon Chen Chu-chieng 10216 29th June 1917 Shun Yu-tsai 25693 22nd August 1917 Sung Ching-lung 11078 7th July 1917 Wang Feng-chu 20012 29th July 1917 Wang Pu-sheng 21470 3rd July 1917 Wang Te-fu 11084 3rd July 1917 Wu Shieng-sheng 11094 28th June 1917 Yang Wu-liu 25489 3rd August 1917 Salford [Weaste] Cemetery, Lancashire Sgt PVR Bowen Lancashire Fusiliers tfd CLC 15th March 1921 Sheffield [Burngreave] Cemetery, Yorkshire 2/Lt Albert Edward Slaney General List att 31 Company CLC died of sickness St Pancras Cemetery, Middlesex Sgt WA Burr 2nd Bn Middlesex Regt 3rd October 1917 tfd 160th Company CLC 31st October 1918 Torquay Cemetery and Extension, Devon 2/Lt Albert Strachan Labour Corps att CLC 30th October 1918 ================================================================================