22 Dec 1941, Additional notes | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

22 Dec 1941, Additional notes

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Mon, 22 Dec 1941

On the 22nd an artillery attack on the Ridge was commenced and our sandbag defences and walls of the houses began to crumble.


No 6 Platoon of the Scottish Company were assigned to hold the area of the bridge over the Lido Road on the night of 22nd December to protect the evacuation of troops in the Repulse Bay Hotel area from enemy troops who were penetrating down the valley to the east of Violet Hill.

((Source - a dramatization of the history of the Hong Kong Volunteers, which was broadcast over Radio Hong Kong on 31st May 1954 as part of the HKVDC Centenary Celebrations))