Captain Chick-Charles Kennett- border crossing Bailey Bridge

Mon, 06/03/2019 - 03:11

The Singapore newsprint highlighted in the earlier post relating to Charles Kennett pilot of a supposed Manila-Hong Kong first flight mentions a Captain Chick, a British military adventurer. Partial clip above

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Sometime earlier when discussing northern New Territories border- crossings I posted an image of ‘Chick’s bridge’ circa 1949

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I wonder if someone in the post-war British Army Units with a sense of Chinese history and of southern war-lords knew of Captain Chick the military adventurer, and named the bridge after him for some reason.

Date picture taken
15 Jun 1949
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