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Shing Mun Structure.jpg

Submitted by HighlandPaddyHK on Sun, 2021-04-18 19:54
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Loose stone held together with concrete.

Storage Building Ruin [c.1934- ]

Submitted by HighlandPaddyHK on Sun, 2021-04-18 19:51
Date Place completed: 
c.1934-01-01 (Year is approximate)

Remains of a stone wall and possible foundation on the hill above the barbeque site, on the bush path up to PB 401. Pictures from the Industrial History of HK site show various buildings constructed around that area; it may be related to one of those as the stonework seems to have more in common with waterworks than military.

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shing mun reservoir

Accessible Tunnel Entrance

Submitted by Iloveoldhk on Tue, 2018-01-16 13:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Accessible Tunnel (view into the portal)

Submitted by Iloveoldhk on Tue, 2018-01-16 13:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Partially Collapsed tunnel

Submitted by Iloveoldhk on Tue, 2018-01-16 13:35

Mostly collapsed tunnel (inside view)

Submitted by Iloveoldhk on Tue, 2018-01-16 13:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Shing Mun Reservoir Japanese Tunnels (below redoubt) [c.1943- ]

Submitted by Iloveoldhk on Tue, 2018-01-16 13:30
Date Place completed: 
c.1943-11-30 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Up the first flight of stairs on the Maclehose trail going towards Shing Mun Redoubt. At the first flat path section there will be one or two large 'cuttings' into the earth, below the trail. Directly below about 10-15 Meters is the larger, accessible tunnel. This one had lots of bush and vines going into the portal, and had obviously had not been entered in quite a while. The tunnel is of standard width-height of the smaller ones and had a split. Both splits get much more narrow until inaccessible, but still go on. The total length of tunnel accessible is around 30-35 meters.

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japanese tunnel
shing mun reservoir

WAYABIYASHI [????-1942]

Submitted by Iloveoldhk on Wed, 2016-06-22 08:38
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Wayabiyashi
Death
Date: 
c.1942-05-05 (Month is approximate)
Cause of death: 
Mortar Fire

Lieutenant Wayabiyashi was the officer who led the opening attack on The Shing Mun Redoubt, and effectively led to its fall. He was able to utilize the cover of darkness on the early morning of the 10th of December to skirt around the pillboxes of the Shing Mun Redoubt and go over the reservoir dam, attacking the redoubt from the rear. He led the group of 20 highly motivated men of the 229th IJA Infantry Regiment, and according to memoirs, they used only grenades and blades in capturing the redoubt.

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shing mun redoubt
shing mun reservoir
Japanese army
Gin Drinkers Line

Gordon Burnett Gifford HULL [1885-1969]

Submitted by Hugh Farmer on Wed, 2013-06-26 01:15
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Hull
Given: 
Gordon Burnett Gifford
Birth
Date: 
1885-01-29
Death
Date: 
1969-09-15

G. B. Gifford Hull was Resident Engineer on the Jubilee (Shing Mung) Reservoir. His name is inscribed on the memorial stone at the Reservoir which was begun in 1933 and finished in 1937.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HK_ShingMumReservoir_MemorialStone.JPG

Birthplace (country): 
United Kingdom
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civil engineer
jubilee reservoir
shing mun reservoir
needle hill tungsten mine
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