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1997

1st Bttn. The Royal Welch Fusiliers at Gun Club.

Death of "Billy" Regimental Goat on 8 June. Buried behind Church. (The "gravestone" was salvaged, prior to excavation work for the new PLA Hospital, & removed to ASD Property Services Branch Antiquities Store at APB Centre in Cheung Sha Wan. No remains of "Billy" were found.)

1st Bttn. The Black Watch at Gun Club.

1st Bttn. The Royal Hampshire Regt. at Gun Club,

Alanbrooke Block (British MQs) & Infants' School (Block 27) demolished. New Gurkha MQs, Temple, Clinic & School build started. 10 Int & Sec Coy moved into Colony Club (Block 36) from Argyle Street Camp.

Gurkha Transport Regt. & Gurkha Signals moved into Gun Club from Shamshuipo Camp. Victoria Junior School moved over from Victoria Barracks.

New Classroom built at Gun Club Primary School. Skeleton said to date from Japanese occupation unearthed during excavations.

Severe flooding on May 2 to MT compound causing considerable damage to vehicles, buildings and equipment. Compound again flooded on May 20 during Typhoon Brenda.

Colony Club (Block 36), St. Eligius' Church, and the old gun shed (Block 29) demolished to make way for the new military hospital. Banyan trees transplanted to elsewhere in the barracks also to the new Kowloon Walled City Park.

Barracks vacated by the British Army and handed over to Hong Kong Government.

Barracks occupied by People's Liberation Army following handover of Hong Kong to China.
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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1998
https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/1g05n0794
280

* See Appendix B.

St. ELIGIUS (or ELOI)

Appendix B

Artisan and Bishop. Born near Limoges, c. 588 : died at Noyon 660. Feast Day 1st December.

Came of a modest Gallo-Roman family, and was apprenticed to the Master of the Mint at Limoges. In due course, coming to the notice of King Chlotar II, he was appointed to a similar post at Marseilles; on Chlotar's death in 629, Dagobert I became his patron, and Eligius acquired considerable influence with the King. He had a great talent for engraving and smithing, and gained sufficient wealth to found a monastery at Solignac and a convent for women in Paris. In 641 Dagobert chose him to be Bishop of Noyon and Tournat. He discharged this office with vigour, especially in the foundation of religious houses and in missionary work among the heathen Frisans. St. Eligius was an outstanding churchman of his day, a friend and counsellor of St. Bathild, and very generous to the poor. Numerous works of art, especially reliquaries, were attributed to his workmanship, some of which still exist. He is the patron saint of smiths, farriers and all kinds of metalworkers.

Source: Plaque in St. Eligius' Church, Gun Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon (demolished 1994).
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