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Appendix A

CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY NOTES

1860

Kowloon peninsula ceded to Britain after the China Wars.

1862

1863

Gun Club Hill & King's Park areas were tented encampments with horse lines in the Chatham Road area.

2nd Bttn. 20th Foot arrived in Hong Kong in December and encamped in Kowloon.

1885

Gun Club Hill range in existence but no buildings.

1888

1892

1899

1904

1905

1909

1910

91st Argylls arrived in December and spent first days in Kowloon matsheds at either Whitfield Bks or Gun Club.

Argylls replaced by 1st Bttn. The King's Shropshire Light Infantry and quarantined in Kowloon matsheds because of smallpox outbreak on the troop ship from Alexandria.

Several companies of Royal Welsh Fusileers quartered at Gun Club following disembarkation.

Barracks Blocks, Officers' Mess, Guard House, Soldiers' Canteen, etc. in existence.

Col. Lewis, RE(Rt.) visited Gun Club which housed the Asiatic Artillery, King's Park described as "very rough" presumably still being used for army training. Rosary Church built same year in Chatham Road (then named De Voeux Road).

Mohammedan/Sikh Cookhouse and Followers' Hut in existence.

1st Bttn. The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at
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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
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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.
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