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23. The following tables contain statements of the garrison and armament :-
Statement of Garrison. '
IMPERIAL Forces according to Establishment.
Total of each Branch.
British Native
N.C.Os.
Officers.
Corps.
Officers. Officers. and Men.
N.C.Os. and Men.
British.Native.
:
General Staff
Artillery-
1 Garrison Company
1
1
"
District Establishment
4 Hong Kong Companies
Engineers-
Fortress Company Supernumerary Staff
Submarine Mining Company Ditto (native portion)
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77743
13
63 5
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2
2
200
200
200
38
1,062
15
447
92
29
SRIR
14
255
64
70
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Infantry-
1 Battalion, British Infantry
28
984
50
34
2 Battalions, Native Infantry
22
34
2,778
1,794
Army Service Corps
2
5
5
Royal Army Medical Corps
9
41
41
Army Pay Department
3
3
3
Army Ordnance Department
Army Schools
R.E. Civil Staff
6
21
6
21
1
2
..
Addi
Total
Grand Total
130
42
4,168
:
4,340
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HONG KONG Volunteer Corps (actual strength).
Staff
Field Battery
3 Machine Gun Companies
Engineer Company
Infantry Company
Band
Total
:
Officers,
N.C.Os. and Men.
6
2
4
91
10
155
2
28
3
54
9
25
339
Remarks.
NOTE--The corps is 4 officers and 11 men over the establishment; but it is known-although dispositions have not been based thereon-that in the event of war many of the British would enrol themselves in the corps. Both the gunnery and small-arm practice of the corps are good.
The machine gun companies are armed with twelve 303 Maxims. The field battery and the machine gun companies are armed with the M.M. carbine; the engineer and the infantry companies with the Lee-Enfield rifle. The field battery has six 2.5-inch R.M.L. guns on loan from the R.A.
25. Arrangements have been made to relieve the garrison artillery of the heavy work of hoisting ammunition, &c., by the enrolment of coolies, who come into pay on the preparation for defence. Some selected Chinese will also be at once enrolled as scouts and messengers.
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