The New Territories....1949 to 1952
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Submitted by Bill Griffiths on Wed, 2012-04-04 22:15
Hello
my name is Bill Griffiths and I served with the British Army in HK from september 1949 till sept 1952....that is apart from seventeen months where we were sent to Korea for seventeen months.
In those days, Shek Kong was just a big open area at the foot of a mountain range seperating the border between Kowloon and mainland China...
There were no brick or stone buildings...just tents...No electricity, and we had to use oil lamps for our lighting.....No air conditioning of course....and showers with only cold water.
This was all pretty basic but we coped and enjoyed ourselves, except during the monsoon season...when our tents used to collapse after heavy rain.
Doe's anyone remeber this time
Shek Kong is quite different now
Bill
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re: The New Territories....1949 to 1952
Hi Bill,
We've got a couple of aerial photos of that area from the early 1950s:
Some other related information:
While you were in Hong Kong, was there any expectation you'd be fighting here (ie against a Chinese invasion)?
Regards, David