The result of defending Hong Kong.

19411On February 25th, under the leadership of Governor Yang, a group of British colonial officials crossed the ocean and personally surrendered to the Japanese General Command on the third floor of the Peninsula Hotel occupied by the Japanese army. Ryunosuke Sakai immediately became the Governor of Hong Kong, until Aesop Koyosuke took over. Since this day is also Christmas, Hong Kong people call it "Black Christmas", and from then on, the period of "three years and eight months" of Hong Kong population under Japanese rule began.

1On February 20th, 942, Japanese Lieutenant General Yasuke Ikuya became the first governor during the Japanese occupation, and Hong Kong officially became the Japanese occupied area.

At the same time, about 15 senior British officers and more than 30 other officers and soldiers and British intelligence officials chose to follow China's highest representative in Hong Kong at that time-China vice admiral Chen Ce to break through from Hong Kong by speedboat. Finally, it successfully arrived in India via Huizhou, Chongqing and Myanmar. Therefore, Chen Ce was awarded the Knight Commander Medal by the British Emperor.

In the defence of Hong Kong, the allied forces * * * 2 1 13 were killed and 8500 people were captured. The Japanese army killed 706 people and was injured 1534 people.

194 1 year1kloc-0/month, the Canadian military sent two battalions of reinforcements from Vancouver to Hong Kong, with a number of *** 1 1,975. Most of them have not completed their training and are not equipped with heavy weapons. Finally, 557 people died, and the rest became Japanese prisoners of war.

Canada's assistance includes:

Winnipeg Grenade unit

Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment

At that time, Hong Kong's defensive strategic fortresses included:

Huangniyong Gorge

Liyumen

Prisoners of war are held in the following places:

Sham Shui Po Military Camp (later renamed Vietnamese Boat Camp, located in the West Kowloon Center and the nearby Home Ownership Scheme Court in Sham Shui Po)

Chai wan Xiao Xi wan

Yokohama barracks

Fukuoka barracks

Osaka military camp (Japan)

1945 After Japan surrendered in August, Hong Kong was once again ruled by Britain, and the imprisoned Canadian soldiers were also released. Surviving Canadian aid soldiers later established the Hong Kong Veterans Association. Among them, 280 Canadian soldiers killed by Brigadier General Lawson were buried in the Xiwan Memorial Cemetery in Chai Wan.

In World War II, the focus of British defense in the Far East was India, and the focus of the front line was Singapore. As a city isolated from South China and surrounded by Japanese troops, Hong Kong not only lacks the depth needed for long-term defense, but also has no strategic substantive role. For Britain, which is short of troops, defending Hong Kong is beyond its power. The fall of Hong Kong was long anticipated by Britain.

In fact, before the war, some people proposed to declare Hong Kong as undefended city to reduce unnecessary losses. 194 1 1 When the commander-in-chief of the British Far East requested to reinforce two Canadian battalions to Hong Kong, Churchill once thought it was a meaningless sacrifice and opposed it.