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Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. Theexchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.
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Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. Theexchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.
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Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
Winston Churchill and his army chiefs designated Hong Kong as an outpost. and initially decided against sending more troops to the colony. In September 1941 they reversed their decision and argued that additional reinforcements would provide a military deterrent against the Japanese, and reassure Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek that Britain was genuinely interested in defending the colony. -
Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert
Hong Kong was being flooded with waves of refugees. Britain realized that Hong Kong almost certainly would soon be attacked. Canada answered the call for troops which were transported by HMCS Prince Robert. Ironically the same ship would rescue the survivors of this force four years later. -
36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river
The Japanese bombed Kai Tak Airport on 8 December. Two of the three Vildebeest and the two Walrus were destroyed by 12 Japanese bombers. -
Evacuation of New Territories
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Evacuation of Kowloon
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Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)
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Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island
That night, approximately 20 gunners were executed at the Sai Wan Battery despite having surrendered. There was a further massacre of prisoners, this time of medical staff, in the Salesian Mission on Chai Wan Road. In both cases, a few men survived to tell the story. -
Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties
On the morning of 19 December fierce fighting continued on Hong Kong Island but the Japanese annihilated the headquarters of West Brigade, causing the death of Brigadier John K. Lawson, the commander of the West Brigade . A British counter-attack could not force them from the Wong Nai Chung Gap that secured the passage between the north coast at Causeway Bay and the secluded southern parts of the island. -
HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
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Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely
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Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
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Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender
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Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital
On the morning of 25 December, Japanese soldiers entered the British field hospital at St. Stephen's College, and tortured and killed a large number of injured soldiers, along with the medical staff. -
Over the month10,000 women are raped
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the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the GuangdongPeople's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
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The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
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Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on• The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been apublic holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.
