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Distribution.-Two blockhouses, Crown Point, for H.K.S.B. R.G.A.
One blockhouse, Shatin Pass..
In one of H.K.S.B. blockhouses Reserve Shatin Pass
British Officer.
Native Officer.
N.C.Os.
Privates. Signallers.
* Includes bugler.
1
6
6
48*
O.C.,
No. VI Sub-Section. Headquarters-Eagle's Nest. Furnished by Eagle's Nest Double Company.
(Senior Officer R.G.A.),
Troops.-1 British officer
21 other ranks
2 British officers
1 native officer 42 rank and file 2-2·95-in. Q.F. 2-15-pr. Q.F.
2 B.I. telephonists.
2 British officers
4 native officers
2 buglers
9 signallers
185 rank and file*
...R.G.A.
Battalion.
.
>H.K.S.B. R.G.A.
* Includes 8 telephonists.
Battalion.
Duties. To furnish observation post by day. To hold Eagle's Nest against raid, and to watch approaches between Kowloon Pass and the sea south of Pipers Hill inclusive.
The reserve to furnish the weekly guard of 1 n.c.o. and 6 privates over the cable end to Stonecutters at Yaumati.
Visiting patrol by night and foggy weather from Railway Pass Blockhouse to Kowloon Pass Blockhouse.
Blockhouse opposite dam to furnish patrol on Frontier Road by night and foggy
weather.
Blockhouse, Wong Uk, to furnish S.P. by night and foggy weather on Gindrinkers Bay Road some 450 yards from post, where road bifurcates.
Blockhouse, Lai-chi-kok, to guard Waterworks Tunnel. Distribution
Eagle's Nest: 2 blockhouses on Hills 1020 West
and 1009-For H.K.S.B. R.G.A., British tele- phonists, and 1 bugler, 3 signallers, of
Blockhouse, Kowloon Pass
Bn.
"
Railway Pass
サラ
Beacon Hill Pass
"D
opposite dam
93
Shansi..
33
19
Pipers Hill
Wong Uk
Reserve close to military road on spur of Hill 1020
between Crow's Nest and Hill 1020 east
Blockhouse, Lai-chi-kok
Cable hut, Yaumati
Tunnel, north end..
south end
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* Includes two signallers.
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Maxim gun detachment and patrol.
British Native Officers. Officers.
N.C.Os. Privates. Buglers. Signallers.
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1
8*
1
14*
1
6
2
16†
1
1
6+ 12
3
65‡
3*
12
208 7
Includes two telephonists at each post.
Maxim
gun
detachment.
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