Talk:British Forces Overseas Hong Kong

Ghurkha contribution

The article is inadvertently misleading as it underplays the contribution of Gurkha forces to the Hong Kong Garrison. The statement "Most of the members of the British Forces in Hong Kong were from Britain" is factually incorrect. At any one time the post 1960s garrison usually consisted of up to 4 Gurkha battalions and 1 British Infantry battalion plus Gurkha signals, transport and engineer regiments.

The list of British line battalions and foot guards is naturally very long and misleading as most battalions served only 1 or 2 two year tours over the period, compared with the Gurkha battalions who each served for the majority of the post war period in the colony. Reference to foot guards as the shared paragraph title with line infantry is especially misleading, until nearly the end the guards very rarely served as garrison infantry overseas as a matter of policy. Scrutiny of the list reveals that of the 5 Guards regiments (usually between 7 and 10 regular battalions) only 4 battalions served in Hong Kong each for only 2 years.

thank you for producing the article

Strider GB (talk) 17:10, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Things that are missing....

...but I don't really know enough about them to add them myself.

• Gun Club Hill barracks is still extant (Austin Road in TST is the main entrance) - now occupied by the PLA, except for the former attached club, now independent as the United Services Club (entrance Gasgoine Road).
• Whitfield Barracks (where Kowloon Park is now)
• East Kowloon Barracks - now occupied by the PLA, it's in Kowloon Tong. You can easily see it from Waterloo Road as the piece of expensive HK real estate with a few decaying Nissen Huts on it.
• Various RGA batteries around HK (e.g. Pinewood Battery off Hatton Road, and on top of Mount Davies)
• the ammunition depots on Lantau and at Tai Po road
• Castle Peak firing range
• Barracks in Fanling with rifle range.
• Minor barracks along border zone
• Barracks and R&R centre on Stonecutters Island
• Beaconsfield House in Central, now demolished

--jrleighton 11:52, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

HMS Audacious

There was apparently no ship of the name Audacious during the period in question. Ohconfucius 09:40, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

That's correct, I've removed this now. Also the Charlotte was the Princess Charlotte, the Alligator had been sold by 1865, and it was the Melville rather than the Lord Melville. Benea (talk) 10:38, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

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General accuracy

In terms of general accuracy, such as the duration of British resident battalion tours, the make up of 48 Bde /Gurkha Field Force and the Hong Kong Garrison, and the RHKR (V) and HKMSC (amongst many other errors) the article is so wildly inaccurate that it isn't just "misleading" but is simply wrong. Trgmajhkmsc (talk) 06:23, 10 January 2020 (UTC)