Battle of hk 03

World War Two Hong Kong Occupation

By ps20143087@student.vsa.edu.hk
  • Period: to

    World War Two Hong Kong Occupation

  • Event 32

    Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.

  • Event 4

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert.

  • Event 1

    36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese

  • Event 5

    Evacuation of New Territories.

  • Event 6

    Evacuation of Kowloon.

  • Event 17

    Japanese demand surrender (surrender ignored)

  • Event 20

    Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses.

  • Event 18

    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island.

  • Event 10

    Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • Event 13

    HK commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured.

  • Event 25

    Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely.

  • Event 19

    Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital

  • Event 21

    Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender.

  • Event 16

    Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort.

  • Event 22

    Over the month10,000 women are raped

  • Event 11

    Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.

  • Event 26

    Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • Event 24

    Police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Event 27

    Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

  • Event 7

    Food rationing begins,

  • Event 28

    The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.

  • Event 31

    The HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong People's anti-Japanese. Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)

  • Event 14

    Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians

  • Event 23

    Public utilities handed to Japanese control.

  • Event 30

    The US dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 immediately.

  • Event 2

    Another atomic bomb dropped by the US over Nagasaki.

  • Event 15

    Japan finally surrenders.

  • Event 29

    The "30 August" was declared as the " Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been a public
    holiday in Hong Kong until 1967

  • Event 12

    Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on the 30'th of August.

  • Event 8

    Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.

  • Event 3

    British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender; Mark Young resumes as Governor

  • Event 9

    General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of September 30'th 1946