Hong Kong volunteers

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In July 1941, Major-General C.M. Maltby, MC, was appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) in Hong Kong . In the same month, all Japanese assets in Hong Kong were frozen, following a similar action in Britain and the U.S. but bartering in the colony continued.The defence of Hong Kong was entirely dependent on a garrison of 11,000 regular British and Indian troops, and a citizen force of 1,387 Hong Kong volunteers. Some of them joined as dispatchers because they owned motorcycles.





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