Battle of Hong Kong order of battle facts for kids
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The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941) was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.
Allied
- Garrison Commander & Fortress Command
- General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong: Major General Christopher Maltby
- Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General: Brig. Andrew Peffers
- General Staff Officer, I: Col. Lancey Newnham
Ground forces
The British ground forces consisted of the following units:
- 2nd Battalion, the Royal Scots Regiment (Lt. Col. Simon E. H. E. White)
- 1st Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment (Lt. Col. Henry W. M. Stewart)
- Royal Rifles of Canada (Lt. Col. William J. Home)
- Winnipeg Grenadiers (Lt. Col. John L. R. Sutcliffe)
- 5th Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment (Lt. Col. John. Cadogan-Rawlinson)
- 2nd Battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment (Lt. Col. Gerald R. Kidd)
- Hong Kong Chinese Regiment (either Major H. W. A. Mayer or Major. Rodney W. Mayer)
- Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (Col. Henry B. Rose)
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- Infantry companies No. 1–7
- Artillery batteries 1st–5th
- Field Company Engineers
- Signals
- Armoured Car Platoon
- Army Service Corps Company
- Dispatch Sections
- Hughes Group
- Field Ambulance unit (Lt. Col. Lindsay Ride)
- St. John's Ambulance
- Royal Artillery (Brigadier Tom McCleod)
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- 8th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lt. Col. Shelby Shaw)
- 12th Coast Battery (Maj. W. M. Stevenson)
- 30th Coast Battery (Maj. C. R. Templer)
- 36th Coast Battery (Capt. W. N. J. Pitt)
- 12th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Maj. Richard L. J. Penfold)
- 24th Coast Battery (Capt. E. W. S. Anderson)
- 26th Coast Battery (Lt. A. O. G. Mills)
- 5th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lt. Col. Fred D. Field)
- 7th Battery
- 17th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery
- 18th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery
- 5th HKVDC Battery
- 965 Defence Battery, Hong Kong–Singapore Royal Artillery (Maj. Basil T. C. Forrester)
- 1st Regiment, Hong Kong–Singapore Royal Artillery (Maj. John C. Yale)
- 1st Mountain Battery
- 2nd Mountain Battery
- 3rd Medium Battery
- 4th Medium Battery
- 25th Medium Battery
- 26th Coast Battery
- 17th Anti-Aircraft Gun Battery
- 8th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lt. Col. Shelby Shaw)
- Royal Engineers China Command (Col. Esmond H. M. Clifford)
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- HQ Fortress Engineers
- 22nd Fortress Company, Royal Engineers (Maj. D. C. E. Grose)
- 40th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers (Maj. D. I. M. Murray)
- Royal Engineers Services
Brigades
Infantry may be assigned to one of the two defensive brigades:
- Kowloon Infantry Brigade
- Brigadier Cedric Wallis
- Hong Kong Infantry Brigade
- Brigadier J. K. Lawson
Headquarters and support corps
British and local forces
- Headquarters, China Command
- Head Quarters
- G
- Admin
- A
- Q
- Command Royal Artillery
- Command Engineers
- Command Signals
- Command RASC
- Command Ordnance
- Medical Service Branch
- Financial Advisor & Army Audit Staff
- Provost Marshall — Corps of Military Police
- 2nd Echelon
- Royal Army Service Corps (Lt. Col. Keble Theodore Andrews-Levinge)
- Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Lt. Col. Robert Macpherson)
- Royal Army Medical Corps
- Royal Corps of Signals (Lt. Col. Eustance Levett)
Canadian
- Canadian staff
- Corps of Military Staff Clerks
- Canadian Provost Corps
- Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Canadian Army Dental Corps
- Canadian Service
- Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
- Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
- Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps
- Canadian Postal Corps
- Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
- Canadian Chaplains Service
- Canadian Auxiliary Services
Indian
- Indian Hospital Corps
- Indian Medical Service
- Royal Indian Army Service Corps
- Hong Kong Mule Corps RIASC
Civilian
Civilian forces were as follows:
- MI6
- Hong Kong Police Force (Commissioner of Police John Pennefather-Evans)
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- Indian Company, Police Reserve
- Chinese Company, Police Reserve
- Fire Brigade (Jack Fitz-Henry)
- Air Raid Precautions
- St. John's Ambulance
- Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
Auxiliary Services
- Auxiliary Services
- Auxiliary Communications Service
- Auxiliary Conservancy Corps
- Auxiliary Civil Pay and Accounts Service
- Auxiliary Fire Service
- Auxiliary Labour Corps
- Auxiliary Medical Corps
- Auxiliary Nursing Service
- Auxiliary Ordnance Corps
- Auxiliary Quartering Corps
- Auxiliary Public Works Corps
- Auxiliary Rescue and Demolition Corps
- Auxiliary Supply Corps
- Auxiliary Transport Service
Commander: Captain Alfred C. Collinson
The Royal Navy presence were as follows:
- Royal Marine detachment (Maj. Farrington)
- HMS Tamar (shore station)
- HMS Thracian (Lt. Cdr. Arthur Luard Pears)
- HMS Scout (Lt. Cdr. Hedworth Lambton)
- HMS Thanet (Lt. Cdr. Bernard Davies)
- HMS Tern (Lt. John Douglas)
- HMS Robin (Cdr. Hugh M. Montague)
- HMS Redstart (Lt. Cdr. Henry C. S. Collingwood-Selby)
- HMS Cicala (Lt. Cdr. John C. Boldero)
- HMS Moth (Lt. Cdr. R. C. Creer)
- Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Lt. Cdr. R. J. D. Vernall)
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
- Royal Naval Dockyard Police
- Hong Kong Dockyard Defence Corps (Maj. D. Campbell)
Auxiliary patrol vessels
- APV Minnie
- APV Margaret
- APV St. Aubin
- APV St. Sampson
- APV Indira
- APV Henriette
- APV Shun Wo
- APV Han Wo
- APV Frosty
- APV Poseidon
- APV Ho Hsing
- APV Teh Hsing
- APV Chun Hsing
- APV Perla
Minor vessels
- APV Stanley
- APV Britannia
- HMS Barlight
- HMS Aldgate
- HMS Watergate
- HMS Cornflower
- Naval Armament Tug Gatling
- Jeanette
- RFA Ebonol
- C410
- Minelayer Man Yeung
- HMT Alliance
- Poet Chaucer
- Waterboat Wave
- SS Matchlock
- Diesel Launch Ah Ming
2nd MTB Flotilla (Lt. Cdr. Gerrard H. Gandy)
- MTB 07 (Lt. R. R. W. Ashby)
- MTB 08 (Lt. L. D. Kilbee)
- MTB 09 (Lt. A. Kennedy)
- MTB 10 (Lt. Cdr. G. H. Gandy)
- MTB 11 (Lt. C. J. Collingwood)
- MTB 12 (Sub-Lt. J. B. Colls)
- MTB 26 (Lt. D. W. Wagstaff)
- MTB 27 (Lt. T. M. Parsons)
Ships of the Merchant Navy:
- SS An Jou
- SS Apoey
- SS Ben Nevis
- SS Cheng Tu
- SS Fausang
- SS Fook On
- SS Glen Moor
- SS Henry Keswick
- SS Hsin Fuli
- SS Kanchow
- SS Kau Tung
- SS Mausang
- SS Nanning
- SS Patricia Moller
- SS Shun Chih
- SS Soochow
- SS St. Vincent De Paul
- SS Tai Ming
- SS Taishan
- MV Tantalus
- SS Tung On
- SS Whithorn
- SS Yat Shing
Air forces
- Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy (Lt. P. J. Milner-Barry)
- Supermarine Walrus L2259
- Supermarine Walrus L2819
- Hong Kong Station, Royal Air Force (Wng. Cdr. Humphrey G. Sullivan)
- Vickers Vildebeest K2924
- Vickers Vildebeest K2818
- Vickers Vildebeest K6370
- HKVDC Flight (Sq. Ldr. Donald "Sammy" Hill)
- 1 x Avro 621 Tutor
- 2 x Hornet Moth
- 2 x Cadet biplanes
Japanese
Ground forces
The Japanese ground forces consisted of the following units:
- 23rd Army
- Commander: Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai
- Chief of Staff: Major General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Deputy Chief of Staff: Major General Keishichiro Higuchi
- 38th Division
- Commander: Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano
- Infantry HQ, 38th Division (Maj. Gen. Takeo Itō)
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- 228th Infantry Regiment (Col. Sadashichi Doi)
- 229th Infantry Regiment (Col. Ryosaburo Tanaka)
- 230th Infantry Regiment (Col. Toshinari Shōji)
- 38th Mountain Gun Regiment (Col. Takekichi Kamiyoshi)
- 38th Engineers Regiment (Lt. Col. Tsuneō Iwabuchi)
- 38th Logistic Regiment (Lt. Col. Shūichi Yabuta)
- 19th Independent Engineer Regiment (Lt. Col. Shoshirō Inukai)
- 20th Independent Engineer Regiment (Col. Kiyoshi Suzukawa)
- 2nd Company, 14th Independent Engineering Regiment (Maj. Eiichi Kusagi)
- 21st Independent Mortar Battalion (Maj. Shigeo Okamoto)
- Signal Corps (Maj. Ryōichi Itō)
- Araki Detachment (Col. Masatoshi Araki)
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- 66th Infantry Regiment – Less 1 Company
- Attached Force
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- 10th Independent Mountain Gun Regiment (Col. Rikichirō Sawamoto)
- 20th Independent Mountain Gun Battalion (Lt. Col. Jirō Kajimatsu)
- 2nd Quick-Firing Gun Battalion (Lt. Col. Takeo Ōno)
- 5th Quick-Firing Gun Battalion (Maj. Jirō Aoki)
- 1st Artillery Group (Lt. Gen. Kaneo Kitajima)
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- 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment (Col. Masayoshi Hayakawa)
- 14th Heavy Field Gun Regiment (Col. Takeaki Satō)
- 2nd Independent Heavy Artillery Battalion (Maj. Kiyotoshi Kanamaru)
- 3rd Independent Heavy Artillery Battalion (Lt. Col. Hitomi Kanmei)
- 2nd Heavy Mortar Battalion (Maj. Deiichi Namimatsu)
Other divisional support
- Armour Squadron (Capt. Jūrō Atami)
- 3rd Transport Regiment (Lt. Col. Otokazu Kobayashi) – Only 3 companies
- 19th Independent Transport Company
- 20th Independent Transport Company
- 21st Independent Transport Company
- 1st River Crossing Material Company, 9th Division (Lt. Hiroshi Furumori)
- 2nd River Crossing Material Company, 9th Division (Lt. Eda Asao)
- Ordnance team (Capt. Sadaharu Koide)
- 5th Field Gas Company (Capt. Magosaburō Suzuki)
- 18th Field Gas Company (Lt. Isamu Morimoto
- Veterinary (Vet. Maj. Jiro Hayashi)
- 1st Field Hospital (Dr. Maj. Toshimi Suzuki)
- 2nd Field Hospital (Dr. Maj. Takuzō Itō)
- Field Pigeon Carrier Company
- South China MP Platoon (Maj. Kennosuke Noma)
- Medical unit
- Medical unit, 51st Division (Col. Otokazu Hattori) – Only 1/3 of the unit
- 17th Field Water Purification and Supply Unit
- Army signal corps
- Two radio signal platoons
- One wire signal platoon
- 2nd China Fleet
- Commander: Vice Admiral Masaichi Niimi
- Chief of Staff: Brigadier Yasuo Yasuba
- Kamikawa Maru
- 2 x Kawanishi E7K
- 3 x Kugisho B3Y
Bombardment Group:
- Isuzu
- Tsuga
- Ikazuchi
- Inazuma
- Kasasagi
- Hiyodori
- Kari
- Kiji
- Tosho Maru
Attack Group:
- Uji
- Hashidate
- Saga
- Arashiyama Maru
- Tsukushi Maru
- Asashi Maru
- Momo Maru
- Ryujin Maru
- Choun Maru No. 7
- Shinsei Maru
- Sozan Maru
- Azuchi Maru
- San Luis Maru
- Shinko Maru
- Toen Maru
Air forces
- 23rd Army Air Unit, 1st Air Group
- 45th Flying Sentai (Col. Shuji Habu) – 29 x Kawasaki Ki-32
- 10th Independent Chutai (Maj. Akira Takatsuki) – 13 x Nakajima Ki-27
- 18th Independent Chutai (Capt. Minoru Kobayashi) – 3 x Mitsubishi Ki-15
- 44th Independent Squadron (Capt. Yoshio Naito) – 6 x Tachikawa Ki-36
- 47th Air-Field Battalion (Maj. Sadayu Uemura)
- 67th Air-Field Company, 67th Air Field Battalion (Capt. Nobunaga Kodama)
- 57th Air-Field Company (2nd Lt. Mitsuhiro Makita) – Elements
- 14th Flying Sentai
- Kanoya Air Group
See also
- List of orders of battle
- British Forces Overseas Hong Kong
- C Force
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