Elliott Battery, Mid Levels [c.1900-c.1920]

Year completed is: Approximate
Condition at last visit: Demolished
Date of last visit: Apr-1998
Ref: ROB-00114
Other:

Timeline:

• Actual date of construction is unknown, but probably about 1900.
• 1903: 2 x 12 pdr QF guns.  (CAB 11/57).
• 1904: 2 x 12 pdr QF guns, 1 x M/G.  (CAB 11/57).
• 1906: 2 x 12 pdr QF guns.  (CAB 11/57).
• 1907: 2 x 12 pdr QF guns, to be reduced.  (CAB 11/57).
• 1910: 2 x 12 pdr QF guns. Practice Battery.  (CAB 11/57).
• 1911: 2 x 12 pdr QF guns. Practice Battery.  (CAB 11/58).
• 1913: 2 x 12 pdr QF guns. Closure as unwanted, to become a service reservoir.  (CO 129/403).
• 1915: There is an old battery called Elliott Bty SE of Belchers which is still in military control.  (WO 32/5316).
• 1916: A portion of Elliott Bty was transferred to the Colonial Government from the War Department, to allow a sustantial improvement to be made in the alignment of Pokfulam Road.  (HK Government Public Works Report for 1916).

For a background to these notes, and a glossary of terms used, please see: http://gwulo.com/node/24630